[cwyers]

> Managers of software teams (and their bosses, all the way up to CTOs and CEOs) need to allow their engineers to contribute fixes to OSS with the understanding that it helps the community.

They NEED to? Or what? I need to drink water. If I don't, I die. What creates this need to allow engineers to help the community?

[johncolanduoni]

As with drinking water, you need to have a goal (e.g. surviving) to say need. I suspect GP was saying that they need to do that to have a non-parasitical relationship with open source projects they use.

[cwyers]

I mean, parasites get to sit around in the host and have a free lunch. You don't cure malaria by yelling at a bunch of Plasmodium falciparum about how they should be ashamed of themselves.