I just wrote a report on open innovation, and I explicitly brought up this development - going from having to implement everything in house (before effective in

I just wrote a report on open innovation, and I explicitly brought up this development - going from having to implement everything in house (before effective internet) to vendoring to the external dependencies we have today. While it is definitely unfair to require an independent open sourcing developer to maintain there software free of charge I really like the idea of deferral of not just the knowledge embedded in open source code, but also the maintenance. The success stories are probably big companies who open source business supporting elements of their stack. Like Meta with React: People can use react and Meta maintains it. On the other hand they benefit from other big companies sharing parts of their stack.