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I'm going to assume it's because Intel don't value the community surrounding their products very well. at least, the ones that append to their work in a way.

a lot of companies tend towards that behavior. a lot of single developers tend towards that behavior. I don't like it because it represents a kind of destructive egotism.

hopefully that's not what it is and it's just Intel not thinking too hard.

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Well, it's been a few years since I worked at Intel, but I'm guessing it's just a misalignment of incentives. It's not that some people inside Intel don't realize who their friends are, it's just that those who do realize who their friends are do not get measured on treating their friends well. Nor does their boss, nor their boss's boss. Until their boss's boss does get measured on how well they treat Intel's friends. Then the friends get smothered in a bunch of distracting attention.

You get what you measure for. Intel measures a lot. Intel fails to measure some important things.

The same is probably true of any company with hyper-focused management. Maybe even your startup.

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