[malandrew]

The problem with a comment like this is that it only takes into account when something was released publicly and not when the problem was first worked on and implemented internally.

Many internal projects that eventually become open-source often are not NIH projects because when the project was proposed their may have been no public open source projects or at least none that is mature enough. Even if something exists but it still in its early stages, it presents a lot of risk because your company isn't in the driver seat building and maintaining it.

Claiming something is NIH based on when it first became polished enough to be open-source ignores all the history behind the state of the world when a project was first worked on.