Aussie_Mo_Bro t1_ja262c7 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 7:36 AM

Reply to comment by dmazzoni in ELI5: Why do Developers publish their code on Github to the public when “giving it away” could hurt their ability to monetize their creations? by AndreLinoge55

I've not worked anywhere that doesn't keep the code you write as their property.

Not saying it doesn't happen, and I haven't really been contracting

dmazzoni t1_ja3hbrc wrote on February 26, 2023 at 3:56 PM

Sure, I'm not saying you open source code produced for someone else.

Companies sometimes open-souece code that they need but isn't key to their profit. For example, Facebook open sourced React because they found it to be a useful way to build web frontend but it has nothing to do with their core business. So Facebook gets more out of people freely collaborating on React than they would out of keeping it secret.