On Mon, 4 May 2020 08:57:45 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'But many of your best developers will chafe at keeping their talents locked up behind the firewall ...'
In my earlier time as an aficionado of certain proprietary companies’ products, I remember discussions with company employees over work they had done on some wonderful new product. And you know how, all too often, those products fail to be a shining success in the marketplace. Sometimes they simply get abandoned by the company, because it doesn’t fit in with their overall “vision” or “strategy” or whatever (aka “internal company politics”). You can imagine the effect of this kind of thing on morale. Even if this situation doesn’t fundamentally change for a company’s proprietary products, still, letting the employees contribute to open-source projects can be a form of stress relief, preventing the frustrations from building up.