What big tech company makes it easy for you to take code written and deployed there while you were employed, and just open-source it?
I know there are big tech firms that own everything you do outside of work, but have a fairly easy process to allow you to release that as open-source.
But this is different, this is about code written for and deployed by the company itself, that isn't part of any corporate open-source strategy.
“Corporate open source strategy” where I work is just having a form that engineers can fill out to request to open source things, and a committee on the other end of the form to sign off. It’s similar to the process for speaking at a conference or publishing on the company blog. Management sometimes steers in the direction of more or less public content, but specific releases are always individual initiative by engineers who want to develop their project in the open. Tech brand wants our name associated with high quality work.
I've only managed small businesses not large ones, but personally I'd be fine 9 times out of 10 with a developer who asked to open source a project they had built an mvp/poc of, but that never got approved to be used at all.
I could even imagine approving of a policy for the open sourcing / licensing of code, where any code that's used or previously used by the company in any way needs to go through an approvals process if anyone wants to open source it, while anything created but never used has a much simpler barrier such as manager agreeing in writing that it's unneeded code and therefore eligible for instant open sourcing under a specific license and specific terms of release.
> "But this is different, this is about code written for and deployed by the company itself"
Written for, yes, but seemingly never deployed (except to the extent that it could be demo'd and rejected). From the article:
> [After looking at a product owned by an unrelated team in the company, he single-handedly decided to make what he thought would be a good add-on or sibling to it] "I demoed Box Sums to the Box Notes team at some point, and they nitpicked the UI and implementation details (“What if two people type in the same cell at the same time? They’ll just overwrite each other.” ). Nothing came of it, but I took the code and shoved it into my back pocket for a rainy day."
It's not impossible "nothing came of it" is a shortened version of "they said it seemed like an awesome tool but too far from the original scope to want to take on and commit to maintaining, and as they said there was no chance that decision would change my manager agreed to sign off on my releasing it under MIT license as is allowed for un-used code."
What big tech company makes it easy for you to take code written and deployed there while you were employed, and just open-source it?
I know there are big tech firms that own everything you do outside of work, but have a fairly easy process to allow you to release that as open-source.
But this is different, this is about code written for and deployed by the company itself, that isn't part of any corporate open-source strategy.