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Open != good. "Not Invented Here" doesn't just come about from anticompetitiveness or stubborness, sometimes there are real problems encountered - especially in
by majormajor 7y ago
Open != good. "Not Invented Here" doesn't just come about from anticompetitiveness or stubborness, sometimes there are real problems encountered - especially in edge cases or at scale - where trying to fix them through navigating open standards vs making your own thing that works better for you is a really viable option.
See also Google's reinvention of things like build tools internally. Lots of open source versions, but they caused plenty of engineering pain of their own.