Agreed. It does bring the egos to the altruistic water, other arguments become much easier once they have experience with the value of OSS participation. Furth

Agreed. It does bring the egos to the altruistic water, other arguments become much easier once they have experience with the value of OSS participation. Furthermore, if a company has a culture of fixing things in open source, people are exposed to it. I can guarantee that many great potential personal time contributors have never been shown the door.