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If you say that "Selenium IDE saved us hundreds or thousands of hours", why not convince your company to donate 10% of the money saved back to Selenium, so that
by dbrgn 9y ago
If you say that "Selenium IDE saved us hundreds or thousands of hours", why not convince your company to donate 10% of the money saved back to Selenium, so that they maybe have the resources to actually pay someone to continue development of these useful tools?
- albertgoeswoof 9y agoThis is not how capitalism works
- confounded 9y agoActually it is; there are subsidies for open source projects all over the VC funded technology industry.
- 2bitencryption 9y agooddly enough, when your capitalist corporation would implode if the open source operating system it depends upon were to suddenly stop development... the corporation needs to pay to support the project or risk falling behind to its capitalist contemporaries! the system works (in this example)!
- oliwarner 9y agoExcept when it is. Investing resources is great marketing, trains your developers if they're working on it and gains you influence to improve the parts you need improved.
- simonstewart 9y agoI think that there are plenty of reasons for companies not to contribute. Not many companies have spare engineering capacity for working on OSS. Of those that do, they have to choose where to spend the effort --- testing tools aren't as exciting as Machine Learning, or the latest JS framework, or.... Of course, once you start hacking on the code, you may find you like it a lot. :) The IDE is a mature, and old product too, so even if engineers can spend time hacking on it, getting up to speed can be tricky. The Selenium project has an active "selenium-developers" google group, a #selenium IRC channel on freenode, and a Slack channel, where many of the core team can be found. Which is a long way of saying that it's not always easy for even motivated individuals and companies to contribute to OSS.
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