Well take, for instance, Microsoft's reputation of embrace, extend, extinguish. That's a perfect example. I don't think they're that bad any longer, but I used

Well take, for instance, Microsoft's reputation of embrace, extend, extinguish. That's a perfect example. I don't think they're that bad any longer, but I used to work with a lot of Apache projects where people would vote against committers from another company that they happened to compete with, and have pretty flimsy explanations for why they didn't think they belonged in the community. Or people would refuse to engage on design discussions and then shoot down proposals - usually just on opposite sides of some corporate competition. That's beyond free labor - it's mixing corporate interests with community project governance, and it's contrary to what should be the inclusive and good-willed nature of non-profit open-source projects like that.