> I find it disingenuous to imply that developers should not be venturing outside the little garden of code they or their company has written except on certain

> I find it disingenuous to imply that developers should not be venturing outside the little garden of code they or their company has written except on certain days and that the developer will even have a choice in the matter. In my experience, developers often do everything possible to avoid working on dependencies (in a way that can be contributed upstream). While it may be the case that developers in SF or other big developer hubs do so, where I live most developers are content to either hack a fix into it, or work around it in their app code instead. Luckily, it makes getting a job easier for myself as I do have a number of open source contributions I can point to, which a lot of other devs around here lack. I had to explain to a recruiter what GitHub was, once.