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This is an interesting topic. I have seen exact same thing happening in my org too. One of the reasons that always comes up is legal. Other reasons I have heard

This is an interesting topic. I have seen exact same thing happening in my org too. One of the reasons that always comes up is legal. Other reasons I have heard is that contributing to opensource is not core to the business. I believe to sustain any foundation backed or non profit opensource project, you need a healthy community. A community is formed when the builders are appreciated for their efforts. Appreciation could be healthy donations or other people believing and joining their mission by contributing code.

masklinn 5y ago
> One of the reasons that always comes up is legal. And usually nobody has run that by legal, it’s just a way for managers to go “nope”.
igetspam 5y ago
My early memories of Google (right around the IPO) involve very strict rules about who can and cannot contribute to FOSS projects and what data must be scrubbed before submitting bugs externally. I did all my contributions under pseudonyms, so it couldn't be linked back to me or to Google. Paranoid companies are not uncommon.