Engineers who worked on a lot of open source projects had high levels of creativity

Developers felt more ownership over their work, and pride in it

Open source developers work well together because of their similar ways of thinking

Peer pressure from GitHub—having their name on a project—was a big motivator for engineers to work harder and not let the community of users down.

If they leave, they're likely to keep working on the project, so you're still getting value for free!

Any contributor to our open source projects is already familiar with a bit of software that we use internally and would require less training if they joined the company.

At Twitter, our open source program has a team of developer advocates focused on growing open source ecosystems which are important for us to ensure they thrive and evolve to our benefit.

hosting events, speaking at conferences, reaching out to contributors, writing documentation to lower the barrier of entry to new contributors

suffers from an over protective legal organization

respecting open source licenses to making it easier for engineers to open source code and ensuring we’re giving back to the open source projects we depend on

the critical role that big data open source projects play in the Internet of Things (IoT).

If we believe in equality, if we believe in participatory democracy and participatory culture, if we believe in people and progressive social change, if we believe in sustainability in all its environmental and economic and psychological manifestations, then we need to do better than slap that adjective “open” onto our projects and act as though that’s sufficient or — and this is hard, I know — even sound.

WordPress, Drupal and many other complete web applications come ready made for deployment.

Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.

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