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What's that cost? How quickly can it be done? If I was a developer would I have to ask my manager to look into the details of our support plan? What about the

What's that cost? How quickly can it be done? If I was a developer would I have to ask my manager to look into the details of our support plan? What about the ability to patch the source? `git clone` is an incredible power. Companies should reward those who are generous with their code.

masklinn 10y ago
> What's that cost? How quickly can it be done? Careful with those goalposts, you're tearing up the pavement. > Companies should reward those who are generous with their code. So companies "should reward those who are generous with their code" but not compensate them for it?
- lmm 10y ago
  > So companies "should reward those who are generous with their code" but not compensate them for it? No, they absolutely should compensate them for it. Buy OSS.
  - jamespo 10y ago
    "So you're asking me to pay for something we can get for free" said every Finance Officer ever...
    - bigethan 10y ago
      "Hey CEO, There's an easy way I can increase team morale for less than the cost of a happy hour" said the VP of Engineering.
      - jamespo 10y ago
        Can you explain how team morale improves if (for example) RHEL is used over Centos?
tacos 10y ago
Indeed the financial support of open source by many users is atrocious. Beyond that you're proselytizing. This issue didn't get solved particularly quickly, either. Nor was "source to the whole stack" required -- kernel source made for a illustrative blog post but was not really part of the process. Do you have source files for the CPU? The motherboard? Your DRAM controller? At some point you draw the line and make shit work. Tools plus docs plus code is great, but you can make do with just one of 'em in a pinch.