Why Big Tech Companies Do Open Source (From A Director at Meta)

Companies like Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Hugging Face have made enormous contributions to open source. These companies often allocate tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to creating or maintaining open source software. Why?

• These companies often rely on the software for their production code
• Companies can use popular open-source projects as a tool to recruit top engineers
• Engineers familiar with a company's software will onboard faster