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Maybe I’m a cynic of all big corp companies but if you’ve ever worked with a big corp open source department that’s almost the entire point is to build PR for t

by cfors 7y ago

Maybe I’m a cynic of all big corp companies but if you’ve ever worked with a big corp open source department that’s almost the entire point is to build PR for the engineering department. Same goes for tech blogs. These things will be PR pieces first, and valid production tools/frameworks second (mostly).

closeparen 7y ago
In my experience software gets written in the first place for the usual internal reasons. Corporate or individual prestige may be the driving factor in open sourcing, though, rather than a genuine interest in having it used externally.