For a while Open Source was a great way to project skill onto employers, and employers reaped recruiting benefits for having a large open source portfolio. Thi

For a while Open Source was a great way to project skill onto employers, and employers reaped recruiting benefits for having a large open source portfolio. This extended to the point that companies would accept internal inefficiency to support an open source release of a portion of their code. This has detectably changed in the last 5 years or so as getting a top project on github has both become more difficult as well as a more common bragging right. Everybody has some open source, so the marginal benefit to a company of releasing another project is low. It would be great if there was a method for privately tracking who uses what libraries so that the marketing/support model could be used. Tons of companies use Tensorflow to run on TPUs, but Google doesn't know if tons means 90% of their cloud customers or 5% ( unless they put library tracking directly into the TPU which ... is possible) I'd love to see a feature on Github for tracking dependents of a project. I'd also bet that most major firms would be willing to allocate a small funding level to ensure that lynchpin dependencies such as OpenSSL, git, maven and other projects remain viable - after all it's probably cheaper than migration later!