I consider any companies that would blanket prohibit open source contribution out of scope of my statement. With those that won’t even allow employees to open a

I consider any companies that would blanket prohibit open source contribution out of scope of my statement. With those that won’t even allow employees to open a bug report or post on a forum to be an extreme outlier. Especially in the context of a company that bought a booth at an open source conference. Legal hurdles exist, but IMHO are the subject of endless hand wringing and awareness campaigns already. Most in that community are seemingly unaware that devs need much more support: socially, mentally, and tactically. In order to become successful open source contributors. So really what I’m saying is that making things legally easier isn’t enough. Advocating that people should contribute isn’t enough. We should be actively training and helping to prepare the next generation of contributors. And doing it in a way that doesn’t overly burden existing maintainers.