The role of open source in a company
summary
Company open source policy favors shipping code because the actual “secret sauce” seldom survives binaries: modern tools like interactive decompiler and systems that rebuild call graphs can recover readable logic, so secrets are mostly gone. Running an internal service alongside open source artifacts preserves commercial value; example: open sourcing key (a secrets manager) at one company provokes fear then proves fine, reduces duplication, and forces focus on service features rather than hoarded code. Managing community becomes running a loosely coupled engineering org.
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