alt Hacker News> We'd rather lose the source code than the knowledge of our workers, so to speak.
Isn't large amounts of required institutional knowledge typically a problem?
> We'd rather lose the source code than the knowledge of our workers, so to speak.
Isn't large amounts of required institutional knowledge typically a problem?
It was a "high tech domain", so institutional knowledge was required, problem or not.
We had domain specialists with decades of experience and knowledge, and we looked at our developers as the "glue" between domain knowledge and computation (modelling, planning and optimization software).
You can try to make this glue have little knowledge, or lots of knowledge. We chose the latter and it worked well for us.
But I was only in that one company, so I can't really tell.