5 Reasons Your Company Should Open Source More Code

It’s why your company needs to stop hoarding software that offers no competitive advantage and start sharing. It will help you attract and retain talent which, in turn, will help your company better serve end customers.

Readwrite vía @jorgecortell

  1. Open sourcing code is great advertising for you and your company…
  2. If your code is popular enough to attract outside contributions, you will have created a force multiplier…
  3. …Smart developers like to hang out with smart code … you attract talent
  4. …the best technical interview possible is the one you don’t have to do because the candidate is already kicking … on one of your open source projects
  5. …dedication to open source code is an amazingly effective way to retain that talent. …developers know the value of coding in the open and will want to build up a portfolio…
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