Sponsorship by the early stage RedHat even the early stage Google is fine. Once those companies have evolved according to the Gervais principle, their presence

Sponsorship by the early stage RedHat even the early stage Google is fine. Once those companies have evolved according to the Gervais principle, their presence can become stifling. Working on "open" source in such a deteriorated company is worse than working on closed source. You get the worst of both worlds: Pressure from anyone on the planet who can open a GitHub issue, pressure from the management to "grow the team" (translation: increase the hiring pool and drive down wages) and corporate bullshit of people celebrating "open" source without ever having done anything for it.