> Unfortunately, in my experience, there's often a lot of barriers within companies to upstream. Reasons can be everything from compliance, processes, you name it... It's unfortunate.
I sympathize and understand those issues for small companies, but after a certain size those excuses stop being convincing.
Especially for a software company like Google who runs dozens of open source projects, employs an army of lawyers to monitor compliance, and surely has to deal with those issues on a daily basis anyway.
At some point there needs to be pushback. Companies get a huge amount of value from hobbiest open source projects, and eventually they need to start helping out or be told to go away.
I sympathize and understand those issues for small companies, but after a certain size those excuses stop being convincing.
Especially for a software company like Google who runs dozens of open source projects, employs an army of lawyers to monitor compliance, and surely has to deal with those issues on a daily basis anyway.
At some point there needs to be pushback. Companies get a huge amount of value from hobbiest open source projects, and eventually they need to start helping out or be told to go away.