[cchance]

People underestimate how much goodwill companies gain from pushing opensource stuff out, not just from word of mouth but even picking up users for their commercial offerings too, while i could run opensource and appreciate it in a lot of cases using API's from the companies that i like (mostly ones that do opensource stuff) tends to be easier for bigger stuff...

[yieldcrv]

(unless the code repository and history is embarrassingly bad, which is most repositories)