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Open and perhaps interesting, but the question I had in mind was: Are big corporations actually different from the rest of the open source users? I guess your
by Arnt 7y ago
Open and perhaps interesting, but the question I had in mind was: Are big corporations actually different from the rest of the open source users?
I guess your employer uses a lot more open source than the tools you spend $500k/y on. So your employer contributes to some development and uses lots more. That's not qualitatively different from what I personally do.
- shoes_for_thee 7y agoMy response to that question is going to be pretty bad: maybe. corps have interests in building tools that help them with their businesses. individuals, i think, have interest in building cool shit. there was an article a while ago exploring the difference between the 'spirit' of oss in the 90s/00s compared to now, but that's hard to qualify. when i think of individual oss projects, my brain automatically goes to the old enlightenment window manager, and e12/e13 in particular. it was cool and not very useful compared to fvwm or afterstep, but i think the libraries rasterman worked on in the process wound up being useful elsewhere. but it's been a long time and i'm recovering from a migraine, so you know.. don't quote me.