Christian Grail gave a talk at OSCON 2016 titled: “How to convince your manager to go open source.”
I thought the perspective was going to be from the user side but it was from the employee side, about convincing your manager to open source the projects at your company.
6 questions your manager will ask
“Isn’t the quality going to suffer?”
There is a perception that when we’re only depending on our internal team, we can control the quality. The fact is that with open source, you have nice lean code and the quality is usually better because it’s being worked on all of the time, regardless of where and by whom. The advantage with most open source software is that you get a community, so you have more than just your team of X developers.
“Who is going to visit our conferences when everything is publicly available?”
People don’t go to open source conferences to be surprised by code, they go to network with their peers. There are conferences for nearly every open source project and language, and they are all successful.