[Joky]

It is hard to find something that can't somehow be considered to compete with Apple. And in CA you can be let go for no reason, so... For example, I couldn't get approval to contribute patches to a gallery plugin for Wordpress that I was using for my personal blog, because you know, the Photos app is a gallery of photos.

[eikenberry]

I hope you quit after that. Working for a company so draconian and anti-society would drive me mad.

[Joky]

I stayed a few years for a few reasons, first because it is still a good company with a “real” product, and also because 99% of my time there was spent working on open-source (clang/llvm). When I decided to quit, it was in part because of their open source policy.

[scarface74]

There are tons of developers who not only don't care about writing open source software on the side, actually go home after working 8 hours a days on computers and decide not to do any code at all and spend time on other hobbies, with their family, etc.

[Joky]

Actually, going home my wife would be the one complaining about not being able to do what she wanted with the blog and asking me to fix it ;)

[tzahola]

Sure, I bet he quit his $150k/yr job to write free Wordpress plugins.

[sangnoir]

...or he could get another $150k/yr job at a company that allows him to write free WordPress plugins on the side.