Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons for the Istio project

Re:Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons fo... by lokar on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:46AM (#23781497)

I think you are partly right here. The problem I see is the use of the word "they". It's a big company, and different people have different goals.

IME (I worked there for a long time, but no longer), individual (and small groups of) engineers with a passion for OSS drive publishing/sharing.

Execs with the interests you outline approve/agree to the sharing.

The motivations are not monolithic, and a corporation is not a person, it's a group of people.

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Re:Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons fo... by johannes1234321 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:05PM (#23783134)

Well, they are still part of a hierarchy serving the goals of the owners (which for a public company means profit) of course that boils down to different things in different groups and I listed different goals for different projects they are involved in. But on a first assumption I, as an external, don't care much about internal structures. (Maybe I care a bit about Google vs. Alphabet, but not by much)

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