I don't think any of the work I've done in my career even has the potential of harm, and that's speaking of someone who spent some time working in the NSA's backyard.
@flabberghaster@ramsey@alcinnz to me, I have the exact opposite experience. The older I get, the more I appreciate having my code used and not stifling innovation.
We're seeing more and more companies contribute back to permissively licensed codebases, since it's in their best interest to do so.
Juniper learned this lesson the hard way, and paved the ideological way that countless other companies follow: keep ONLY the money-making bits as proprietary and open source everything else.
Open sourcing as much as possible enables the community to support their work and eases long-term maintenance burden, lessoning differences between upstream and downstream.
Netflix, Intel, Dell, Apple, Cisco, NetApp, Chelsio Communications, Mellanox, just to name a few.
It used to be that companies would not open source their work, but that's certainly not as common today as it used to be. Yet the perception that it is still common persists.
@aral I'm gonna assume it's an efficient robust, enhanced quantum metachain replication browser that tightly integrates web3.11 for skynet groups with optional, but highly recommend, augmented reality drone functionality.