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> IMO, that is better than money IMO, it's not. SF developer time is hella expensive, and OSS projects can hire developers on their own, somewhere cheaper. Whe
by zozbot123 8y ago
> IMO, that is better than money
IMO, it's not. SF developer time is hella expensive, and OSS projects can hire developers on their own, somewhere cheaper. Where a software company can help OSS cheaply and effectively is by providing support for interoperability with their own business area, and by relicensing their existing, non-core-business IP under favorable terms.
- bpicolo 8y ago> OSS projects can hire developers on their own, somewhere cheaper A lot of the bigger OSS projects require an expertise you're not going to find outside of megacorps, because they have internal scale/process problems/otherwise that necessitate interesting problem solving
- dspillett 8y agoAlso large companies often value creating documentation and other "admin" much more than individual developers - individual developers appreciate this admin work having happened but often detest doing it themselves, where for a decent company the value of a smooth skills transfer process is more obvious and baked into the culture. This is far from always the case, of course, but projects that get a lot of input from commercial entities often have documentation that is more complete and (more importantly) more accurate/up-to-date than those that don't.