I've seen it happen when a company decides to close it's doors.
Assuming you mean an active company, a lot can be open source that deals with customer data, because their data is not in the source code. At Hofstadter, we are open sourcing some today with a plan to open source our core tool. There is a path for a gradual transition. We also have some projects in the works that will form our always free tier and become open sourced early in their life. OSS is important to us for many reasons, one is that we have benefited a lot from them, another is our focus on developers.
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I've seen it happen when a company decides to close it's doors.
Assuming you mean an active company, a lot can be open source that deals with customer data, because their data is not in the source code. At Hofstadter, we are open sourcing some today with a plan to open source our core tool. There is a path for a gradual transition. We also have some projects in the works that will form our always free tier and become open sourced early in their life. OSS is important to us for many reasons, one is that we have benefited a lot from them, another is our focus on developers.