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Why is Bloomberg approving the open sourcing of this system?

• esafak 3y ago
  They must not consider it a trade secret, so they can earn good will, generate public contributions, and advertise their brand by sharing it.
• SkipperCat 3y ago
  If it gains wide adoption, then they've got a global community of people providing free software engineering for their messaging platform. Its a win-win.
• loire280 3y ago
  Why wouldn’t they? This technology is not a competitive advantage for their company, wouldn’t make sense for them to sell as a standalone product, and it helps their engineering department attract good talent.
• BossingAround 3y ago
  Hiring strategy--there are a ton of people who'll take a slightly lower salary if they can get a public record of their code commits.
• Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  Because they're not making money off of their queueing system, but what they build with it; to them it's a cog in their machine, and open sourcing it means others may adopt it and help them maintain and improve it.
• puchatek 3y ago
  Same reasons any company open sources their software
• sdesol 3y ago
  Here's some community stats for Bloomberg open source projects https://devboard.gitsense.com/bloomberg https://devboard.gitsense.com/bloomberg For the 200 repos that they have made open source, they had over 6000 people contribute feedback and/or code. So in addition to attracting talent, they also get more testers and feedback. Full Disclosure: This is my tool
• gorbachev 3y ago
  https://www.bloomberg.com/company/values/tech-at-bloomberg/open-source/ https://www.bloomberg.com/company/values/tech-at-bloomberg/o...