Rameez Nooruddin

Very few of these human needs are well-met in the typical organization: someone else chooses your projects, someone else tells you how to do it, you rarely interact with anyone or get praise from someone you respect, and your public reputation goes straight down the toilet as you vanish behind the firewall. The work inside the firewall can, sometimes, rarely, be interesting and humanly-rewarding, but the emphasis is on "rarely".

(via Clue is a renewable resource)

I can see this happening to people around me quite often. Does the solution lie in 80-20 splits and open source? I doubt it.