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djt on July 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source...

-legal problems (licensing, liability)

-proprietary technology (ie Google Reader hooks into Google backend extensively)

- Cost of getting it ready for open source (usually a large sunk cost already)

- They may still make money out of it in the future (ie selling old games with emulation)

djt on July 7, 2013 | [–]

Also, for individuals there is a lot of positives in that prospective employers can see their work. From a company there may be way less incentives.

f902370 on July 7, 2013 | [–]

I wish Google could treate Google Reader the way they treated Google Wave.

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