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by naasking 25 days ago
> 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?