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> To distinguish, they even have a different name for it - inner source.

Yeah, I recognize MBA speak when I see it. That's why I chuckled. They were hacked and somebody saw their code. Now some guy in upper management has to spew some bullshit to protect the company's "image".



The term "inner source" was not coined by Microsoft. The wikipedia page [1] shows the history of the term.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_source


Work at MS, that term has been used for a long time internally, certainly longer than I have worked here. It really is very useful to be able to go find the code for a product when you want to understand how something works.




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