So the answer to my question was "yes" then, thank you. I don't know what I would call that practice but it is not any kind of "open source circle of life". >

So the answer to my question was "yes" then, thank you. I don't know what I would call that practice but it is not any kind of "open source circle of life". > It's a part of the product's life cycle that's in any startup book. There are many start-ups truly committed to open source development. Conversely, there are many who are not but are pretty upfront and honest about how they are not. I don't judge either one as I'd rather not be a zealot, and one ought to do what one ought to do. However, there are also some companies (thankfully a minority, as far as I can tell) who are not really committed whatsoever to open source, but still pretend to be (often using marketing speak like "the ideology is in our blood") for the sake of good publicity. Those I don't like, but then again most of them are large corporations, so it's not like there's much one can do in that area.