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Not untrue. Internal orgs adopt a monorepo structure - the source for the majority of the infra is readable from almost any developer within the company.

I figured that’s where Raymond Chen gets the bulk of his material from: looking at the perforce/sd diffs from 1997.

They specifically said it's _not_ open source. Hence the open source-like. To distinguish, they even have a different name for it - inner source.

> 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.

If somebody needed an example of open source washing...