[sametmax]

Or even "we are ready to pay 3 people for a year to build that, if we don't and give you the money instead what can you do ?".

The software industry has a real problem contributing to open source, the stuff, you know, allowing them to make money in the first place.

[placeybordeaux]

They did open source their solution. It sounds like you are arguing against parallel development. That happens all the time in open source.

[sametmax]

Contributing to other open source projects is very different than to open source your project. NIH is one of the worst problem of open source : companies are spending a lot of money to dev new software instead of improving existing one.