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Because of all the developers that consume open source code to provide value to their organizations, the proportion who are willing, able and whose organization
by lotyrin 11y ago
Because of all the developers that consume open source code to provide value to their organizations, the proportion who are willing, able and whose organizations allow them (not just permission but resources) to contribute back is effectively zero. Also all the tools required to do so still suck, for the same reason.
For just one example, why - when there's billions of humans that each have hundreds of data points which are relevant to their lives - do we only have maybe hundreds of datastores, reporting tools or visualization tools? Hint: it's not because of the universal applicability and quality of existing products.
Humans aren't very good at considering others or planning very far ahead. On top of that we're not very good yet at training people who can code despite the acute demand for them as everyone transitions paper processes to digital or old digital processes to new digital processes.
Everyone is too busy building yesterday to worry about tomorrow, even on small scales. It seems only outlier organizations have the discipline and foresight to invest in even private internal tools or processes, let alone public ones.