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Discussion on: How do you encourage clients or employers to open source?

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Ben Halpern

Is the software really how we make our money or is it a support mechanism?

Is our code so re-usable that our competitors would actually steal it?

Do we get bug reports that could conceivably be investigated by the person who reported it?

Are any of our customers/fans software devs?

Are there future employees who might be enticed into working for us because they already have some familiarity with the code?

Are there future employees who might think it's righteous that we create open source code and want to work for us?

Is there an opportunity to catch this wave before it passes us by?