Not all of Google is that way. The Chromium project, I think, is a notable exception. Gerrit Code Review is happy to accept outside contributions. And technically the Git maintainer (Junio Hamano) is a Google employee these days.
Sadly, Kevin doesn't sound too good here:
And here's the last thing. Be honest: if you were going to sign yourself up for doing all that work above... wouldn't you at least want to have the pleasure of writing the code for it yourself?
Code is code. (Well, as long as it's not awful/ugly code.) I'm as happy to marshal through someone else's code as write my own.
Sadly, Kevin doesn't sound too good here:
And here's the last thing. Be honest: if you were going to sign yourself up for doing all that work above... wouldn't you at least want to have the pleasure of writing the code for it yourself?
Code is code. (Well, as long as it's not awful/ugly code.) I'm as happy to marshal through someone else's code as write my own.