If you believe people are good, you must be unafraid to share information with them Transparency is the second cornerstone of our culture. “Default to open” is a phrase sometimes heard in the open-source technology community. Chris DiBona, leader of Google’s open-source efforts, defines it like this: “Assume that all information can be shared with the team, instead of assuming that no information can be shared. Restricting information should be a conscious effort, and you’d better have a good reason for doing so. In open source, it’s countercultural to hide information.” Google didn’t create
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