Last week, I gave a talk at Github Universe and afterwards several people suggested I write a blog post on it. Here it is. This post will cover intricacies of “choosing your battle” and how personal passion for a project might conflict with corporate motives. I have experienced open source from the side of the contributor, the side of the maintainer, and the side of the corporate-backed maintainer and contributor. The latter is what really comes into play here but a lot of the passion I t...