[edoceo]

I view it as new paint on same crappy house.

They had to do the open-source thing for .NET because of external pressure - not because they've changed.

They had to get GitHub because of the eyeballs. It's not some altruistic play.

In both cases some VPs spun it around, juked the stats and got their bonus.

The first E of EEE feels so good makes you forget the inevitable outcome. Like heroin.

[naasking]

> They had to do the open-source thing for .NET because of external pressure - not because they've changed.

Corporations don't have some innate "essence" that defines their nature, their behaviour is defined by internal and EXTERNAL factors, yes. So what?

The very fact that you recognize that external factors have influenced how they approach open source is a tacit acknowledgement that their behaviour has indeed changed.

> They had to get GitHub because of the eyeballs. It's not some altruistic play.

No corporation is completely altruistic, so what?