> One thing you should remember is that for most of the time, it is not the companies who are giving away source code, but it is the individual efforts that make it happen. They come up with these ideas and bravely debate against their managers and internal pressure to make a contribution to the public domain.

This is why developers should be the boss, all too often I hear of great ideas and initiatives that are squashed for imagined fears of a suit. Hackers intimately understand change and are not afraid to push the envelope.