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by joseph8th 1502 days ago
Agreed, with a caveat. Many big projects have multiple components. A company may make a strategic decision to open source one (or more) component explicitly to use it as a marketing strategy.

A startup side project I'm working on is going to do this. We're hoping that by providing something useful to other dev teams, we will raise the profile for the company that's giving the tech away.

If we can earn a good reputation for our tech, we hope that will translate to more signups for the company's product, which uses the tech.