Isn't there a bit of an elephant at the other end of the room? PR are not only about placing a bouncer at the club door to, figuratively speaking, check enteri

Isn't there a bit of an elephant at the other end of the room? PR are not only about placing a bouncer at the club door to, figuratively speaking, check entering members for excessive drunkenness, they are about placing a bouncer at the door to give access to a wider group. This is quite obvious in open source, where the PR model has been a revolution in terms of lowering barriers of entry. You can join the party without asking for the keys. But similar barriers exist in companies. When they don't exits on the technical level (they usually do, sometimes to the point where collaborating teams wouldn't even know what version control the other side is using), they exist on the social level and a model like PR/MR can help nudge both towards the "internal open source" mindset.