> Ive been in SWE management for roughly 20 years now and if you get labeled as “the person who wants everything open source” Not if you do it right. Don't be

> Ive been in SWE management for roughly 20 years now and if you get labeled as “the person who wants everything open source” Not if you do it right. Don't be "the person who complains about stuff not being open source". I believe I have been pretty successful at open sourcing a lot of my code. Sometimes by convincing my management that it was good for the company, sometimes by manipulating them (I guess it would mean I manipulated people in your position :-) ). Not in a way that hurt the company at all: I never open sourced anything where it actually mattered for the company. I see it like this: when given the choice between not open sourcing (no work needed) and open sourcing (some work needed), every rational manager will go for the former ("I don't care about it, so don't wait my resources for it"). I just adapt my narrative to make it sound like it is cheaper to open source, and everybody is happy!