[LordDragonfang]

>Yahoo (RIP) was by reputation as community-minded and pro-open-source as a for-profit business citizen can get.

As someone who went through Yahoo acquisition and total bungling of tumblr, where community feedback fell on deaf ears, that's news to me. (Granted, the next owners were the ones who immediately managed to drop the userbase by like 80%, so maybe you're not totally wrong)

[smcin]

I said was. Meaning pre-2012. What year in your opinion did Yahoo jump the shark, as an employer?

(IIRC Yahoo culture had the reputation for being very friendly to employees open-sourcing their code, and not aggressively pursuing BS patent suits; this was different to most of MAANG + telecomms.)