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This seems odd. It feels unfair to shame companies because they may or may not contribute to a handful of projects you've picked out. I'd also encourage the aut
by imjared 10y ago
This seems odd. It feels unfair to shame companies because they may or may not contribute to a handful of projects you've picked out. I'd also encourage the author to do a bit more digging. The first entry calls out Instagram for allegedly not contributing to Django but they have a fork of it here: https://github.com/Instagram/django https://github.com/Instagram/django and without doing much digging, it's easy to say they've contributed at least once.
Several of the companies listed make incredible contributions to OSS.
- Alir3z4 10y agoMost of these companies and probably all of them contribute to Open Source for sure, but they don't contribute back to the projects they use. Instagram being a golden sponsor of Django (https://github.com/Alir3z4/oss-wall-of-shame/pull/3 https://github.com/Alir3z4/oss-wall-of-shame/pull/3) but still it's not officially claimed that it started to sponsoring yet. A 3 years old fork of Django doesn't seems to be a real contribution. Have a look at instagram and its size and tell me a 3 years old fork of their web framework of choice, something that made them $$$ is something to be called a contribution. Contribution is not only code, it can be $$$, hosting, hiring a developer to work on the project or many many other ways.