On: The magic of small engineering teams

[seadan83]

OSS dev might be a bad example. OSS is often an internal product that is opened up to gain free OSS labor. Most often, the position would exist within the company if it were OSS or not. In other words, it is something the company is working on regardless of OSS or private codebase

[bdcravens → seadan83]

Not all paid OSS development is the company's product/project. Many of the largest open source projects are dependent on corporate "charity".