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Good points. This can be a good article for people in large companies who need to justify Open Source efforts.


Yep I plan to post this to my company's intranet social network. My understanding is that our company's policies prohibit contributing to the open source projects we use.


If you have 40 minutes to waste, this talk from a Facebook manager talks about this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzL6Zoy_ndk


im afraid this article will fall on deaf ears to those folks. most c-level folks are all about protecting intellectual property and racking up patents. indeed, there are special little ceremonies for patent awards, along with bonus at most enterprise corps.




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