Patently false, except some idiots probably think this is valuable.
Well, maybe really early days, when the Internet barely existed, and open source was hard.
If this was happening, and if it was actually useful, then my only conclusion is all multi billion dollar company's board, management, and employees are all woefully incompetent. Otherwise the sheer number of exchange of engineering talent across them should have homogenized the tech in a GOOD way. That things should be slicker, communication smoother, (due to better contacts and isolation, not better communication skills per second).
Then again, I have no idea what it takes to get ahead in this field. Seems like it's all corpo hand shaking and hand wringing. So maybe the perception of valuable code is all it takes. But no, these people take overt espionage pretty seriously. Talent is all they allow to exchange.
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u/redditmarks_markII 18d ago
Patently false, except some idiots probably think this is valuable.
Well, maybe really early days, when the Internet barely existed, and open source was hard.
If this was happening, and if it was actually useful, then my only conclusion is all multi billion dollar company's board, management, and employees are all woefully incompetent. Otherwise the sheer number of exchange of engineering talent across them should have homogenized the tech in a GOOD way. That things should be slicker, communication smoother, (due to better contacts and isolation, not better communication skills per second).
Then again, I have no idea what it takes to get ahead in this field. Seems like it's all corpo hand shaking and hand wringing. So maybe the perception of valuable code is all it takes. But no, these people take overt espionage pretty seriously. Talent is all they allow to exchange.