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I think Microsoft or Apple for example, made their own programming languages in much more ethical way than Google's sceptical which is: "ohh we are going to mak
by craftoman 7y ago
I think Microsoft or Apple for example, made their own programming languages in much more ethical way than Google's sceptical which is: "ohh we are going to make our own language and get the help from the open source community." Everyone knows that companies are "exploiting" open source today which is really sad.
- dmitryminkovsky 7y ago> Everyone knows that companies are "exploiting" open source today which is really sad. Often enough it seems like companies go out of their way to deal with open source just for the "cred" and hiring opportunities that it brings. The open source itself is a just a drag on their internal team, which has to deal with tickets and contributions they don't want or need.
- craftoman 7y agoThey don't need what? Free testing and debugging from thousands of people running their software on completely different hardware and OS? You may see useless tickets but companies are paying millions for QA and testing.
- dmitryminkovsky 7y agoMy observation has been that the free testing they get is often for cases they never hit in their production use cases. For example, FB doesn’t use DraftJS on mobile, so it took a whole year long effort and a person who used to work for FB to fix mobile support. They just didn’t need it, didn’t have resources allocated to dealing wit it, and were understandably unresponsive on the subject. Now maybe they can use it in the future on mobile if they want, but they would have just fixed it if that need had ever arisen for them organically.