There can be strategic business reasons to open source, but don't forget that open source is a powerful recruitment tactic as well. Recruiting is the main reaso

There can be strategic business reasons to open source, but don't forget that open source is a powerful recruitment tactic as well. Recruiting is the main reason we are permissive about open source at BackType. Programmers (esp. top ones) really want to be involved in open source. I wrote more about this here: http://nathanmarz.com/blog/why-your-company-should-have-a-very-permissive-open-source-p.html http://nathanmarz.com/blog/why-your-company-should-have-a-ve...