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I think you are partly right here. The problem I see is the use of the word "they". It's a big company, and different people have different goals. IME (I wor
by lokar 6y ago
I think you are partly right here. The problem I see is the use of the word "they". It's a big company, and different people have different goals.
IME (I worked there for a long time, but no longer), individual (and small groups of) engineers with a passion for OSS drive publishing/sharing.
Execs with the interests you outline approve/agree to the sharing.
The motivations are not monolithic, and a corporation is not a person, it's a group of people.
- johannes1234321 6y agoWell, they are still part of a hierarchy serving the goals of the owners (which for a public company means profit) of course that boils down to different things in different groups and I listed different goals for different projects they are involved in. But on a first assumption I, as an external, don't care much about internal structures. (Maybe I care a bit about Google vs. Alphabet, but not by much)