[austincheney]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here

I have encountered Invented Here Syndrome when I joined my current employer about a popular open source application I wrote. They didn’t realize I wrote the application they were advocating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004405

Selection bias in hiring is also a factor. As an open source author I have noticed the biggest difference between populations is a preference for criticality away from accepted norms that does not so much exist on internal teams or may even be despised. It’s the difference between doing what’s popular because that appears to work versus doing something that becomes popular because it works better.

Another factor is hard work. Professionally hard work is often rewarded and encouraged when it should be discouraged. As software developers we should be focused on automating away the hard work, which is often the motivation behind most open source.