I fully support this. If it's not your secret sauce then why not give it to the community? The common rebuttal I hear for this is "but we have to then maintain

I fully support this. If it's not your secret sauce then why not give it to the community? The common rebuttal I hear for this is "but we have to then maintain it". Granted, maintenance is time consuming but even if you do not do anything after open sourcing it, someone could still fork it and tailor it to suit their needs. I don't open source something if I am on the fence about whether what I have coded is a tool or a potential product. I also don't open source something if it's really untidy, I try to do a bit for the community before putting it out there like making sure it runs on Heroku for example (if it's a web app let's say) and that it is somewhat readable. Not saying my current work on my Github is perfect but I am always learning.