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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by erikb on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:05AM (#17979174)
> And worst case, there's no major downside to open sourcing language tools.

Worst case is you didn't protect your IP and people get fired because the competition makes the money.

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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by freeone3000 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:36PM (#17980594)
This is unlikely at large corporations. Projects from bigcorp that get opensourced are the ones that don't contain private information and would be difficult to monetize (or are strategically open-sourced).
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