💡 WHY CHRIS IS RIGHT
Internal code belongs to whoever owns the company, and that changes: acquisitions, pivots, a new CFO who shuts a team down. Code published under an open license stays usable by everyone, including the engineers who wrote it and the customers who depend on it. It also keeps the team honest about lock-in, because a tool the world can fork cannot quietly become a hostage. Openness is insurance on the work itself.
