We don't have a whole lot of interaction with the wider open source world -- not because we don't want to, but because our cultures are just so drastically different! We do contribute major security fix patches to LJ (and of course all of our stuff is available for them to take into their tree, although they don't do a lot of it), and I know fu has been doing some work on Mercurial, since we use Mercurial as our source management software. I've been thinking of coding a little for Bugzilla, since there are some things about it that annoy me, too.

On the whole, if we find a bug in one of the modules/etc we use, of course we'd send patches upstream! But -- speaking only for myself here -- I find the prevailing culture in a lot of OSS projects to be utterly toxic, and not at all the way I'd like to spend my time. I can't speak for everyone, but I think I'm not the only one.

I know we've had a bunch of people from the wider FLOSS world hear about us and decide to come hack with us! We do our best to make it fun.