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Not just IP problems, but also encourages bad work habits. His company should of sponsored this work if they felt it was in their best interest. This type of he

Not just IP problems, but also encourages bad work habits. His company should of sponsored this work if they felt it was in their best interest. This type of hero behavior burns people out and keeps open source projects with very limited resources. Edit: To the author because he replied once to this thread: I hope in the future you feel comfortable in the future asking for time to work on open source projects during company time and realizing that you doing work that benefits your company for free is not in your or your companies best interest long term. If you feel that they would be unwilling to do this during work hours then push for something like this: https://futurice.com/culture/sponsoring-free-time-open-source-activities https://futurice.com/culture/sponsoring-free-time-open-sourc....

alangpierce 9y ago
Thanks for the link, that Futurice policy is really cool. I certainly felt comfortable working on decaffeinate a little bit during work hours, and my company was fine with it, but I think the amount of time it needed was more than a small startup should be willing to invest. I would have pushed back if someone wanted me to work on it full time until it was done, and I wouldn't have worked on it if it was only an internal tool. Agreed that having a more formalized company position on open source work would be nice. For now it's just "use good judgement". I think in an ideal world, there would be lots of companies that each explicitly invest a little bit into these types of projects. It's already happening to some extent, but I think the incentives are hard to get right (especially for projects with a high chance of failure), and plenty of popular projects probably don't get enough attention, especially from companies that rely on them.

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Not just IP problems, but also encourages bad work habits. His company should of sponsored this work if they felt it was in their best interest. This type of he

by RubenSandwich 9y ago

alangpierce 9y ago
Thanks for the link, that Futurice policy is really cool. I certainly felt comfortable working on decaffeinate a little bit during work hours, and my company was fine with it, but I think the amount of time it needed was more than a small startup should be willing to invest. I would have pushed back if someone wanted me to work on it full time until it was done, and I wouldn't have worked on it if it was only an internal tool. Agreed that having a more formalized company position on open source work would be nice. For now it's just "use good judgement". I think in an ideal world, there would be lots of companies that each explicitly invest a little bit into these types of projects. It's already happening to some extent, but I think the incentives are hard to get right (especially for projects with a high chance of failure), and plenty of popular projects probably don't get enough attention, especially from companies that rely on them.