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I'm not going to comment on who is writing the article because that's not the point. I think this is a good article pushing for more open source development at
by Flux159 12y ago
I'm not going to comment on who is writing the article because that's not the point.
I think this is a good article pushing for more open source development at traditionally large enterprise software companies. It helps the open source community and it helps the company attract talent. It also gives good advice to large enterprises saying that they shouldn't just throw their code into open source without good documentation and community engagement. At the very least its a good start for companies that would have otherwise kept all their code internally.
Just because the article mentions Walmart Labs working on hapi (apparently an express-like nodejs framework) doesn't mean that HN should suddenly disregard the content of the article (as some of the other comments seem to be doing).
- mathattack 12y agoGood points. This can be a good article for people in large companies who need to justify Open Source efforts.
- bglazer 12y agoYep I plan to post this to my company's intranet social network. My understanding is that our company's policies prohibit contributing to the open source projects we use.
- spydum 12y agoim afraid this article will fall on deaf ears to those folks. most c-level folks are all about protecting intellectual property and racking up patents. indeed, there are special little ceremonies for patent awards, along with bonus at most enterprise corps.
- leppr 12y agoIf you have 40 minutes to waste, this talk from a Facebook manager talks about this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzL6Zoy_ndk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzL6Zoy_ndk