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> yet happily use their Open Source code It's not their code. Linux didn't come from a company for example. The list goes on. The amount of code they give bac
by bartimus 7y ago
> yet happily use their Open Source code
It's not their code. Linux didn't come from a company for example. The list goes on.
The amount of code they give back is peanuts compared to the amount of code they benefitted from to build their businesses. No need to feel guilty whatsoever to use it. Also totally fine to point out the parasitic players.
- hnmullany 7y agoIf memory serves, IBM had a lot of good engineers on Linux back in the day & I think they were responsible for doing a lot of the hard perf. work on multi-CPU scheduling.
- fooker 7y agoAlso Oracle, iirc Linux was a toy os before IBM and Oracle funded posix compatibility.
- tracer4201 7y agoMany of the folks who wrote the systems or languages you use every day work at these big companies. Didn't James Gosling work for Amazon at some point? >Also totally fine to point out the parasitic players. Who are the parasites? These bad-faith posts that are really just unconstructive rants are turning this site into Reddit.
- _msw_ 7y ago> Didn't James Gosling work for Amazon at some point? He currently does.
- bartimus 7y ago> Who are the parasites? There can exist a mutual beneficial symbiosis between companies and the open source community. But at some point the symbiotic behavior can become parasitic, causing harm. I think it's super important when such behaviors get pointed out (here at HN).