Assume you are considering open-sourcing a large service of your internal enterprise infrastructure. Let's say you have the resources required to ensure the minimal requirements are met: the licenses are sorted out, profanities removed, security audits conducted and all known security vulnerabilities fixed. Assume your company doing the open-sourcing has a very recognized and valued global brand.
Does it make sense to open-source such service by just dumping the files? I am assuming here it won't even be possible to run the service as-is, because it will have dependencies on other, not open-sourced systems.
If not, what would be the minimal effort required to make open-sourcing worthwhile?
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