Thinking open source: How startups destroy a culture of fear
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They will? Where does this idea come from that large companies are the big leagues, and that if you're good enough you'll eventually "graduate" to there?
In my experience it's the complete opposite; small companies are much more discriminating about who they hire.
Do you think that the people who run Github are hoping one day they'll be hired as executives at Oracle?
It's not about "making the big leagues" or getting hired by Oracle. It's about growing your startup into a big company that embraces this culture.
Look at Facebook. It is officially a very big company now, and it is doing amazing things for the community like Cassandra and HipHop for PHP.
I agree that if companies that release open source software now grow bigger then they will still release source, but from that quote it's clear to me that that's not what he's talking about.
The people running Facebook are releasing a lot of cool stuff, but I don't see them lining up to move to Goldman Sachs to release stuff there instead.