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> And worst case, there's no major downside to open sourcing language tools.

Worst case is you didn't protect your IP and people get fired because the competition makes the money.

This is unlikely at large corporations. Projects from bigcorp that get opensourced are the ones that don't contain private information and would be difficult to monetize (or are strategically open-sourced).

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