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A financial institution doing something for free? what is this?

• johannes1234321 7y ago
  They are not doing it for free * They build it for internal use, primarily * They use it for advertisment (hey ING bank would never be mentioned here otherwise) * They can eventually use it for recruiting (send high quality PRs, they might like you) * If they are lucky they get cheap bug fixes (not free, as review and community work costs time)
  • geofft 7y ago
    They also get to demonstrate their way of doing things in public, which in a field as active and mercurial as frontend web development has value in influencing where changes go. If they have a particular solution to a problem that's not well-solved elsewhere, they can influence the world to follow their approach to solving it (or at least not pull the rug out from under them) instead of going a totally different way and turning their code into technical debt.