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Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by jobu on Thursday October 25, 2012 @10:36AM (#4697786)
Those reasons are possible, but in the companies I've worked for the resistance to open-sourcing code is mostly just fear:

• the competition might use our code to make their products better than ours

• our code is obsolete or just plain terrible, and could hurt our company image

• we might have to spend a ton of time supporting users that made changes to the code

• if the community does a better job with the code then we might get fired

Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by joezydeco on Thursday October 25, 2012 @11:07AM (#4697890)
How about "the competition might use our code as a spec to make a cheaper compatible part in Asia and undercut our business altogether"?