Take away all the frills and you’re just a contractor. The past two organizations I’ve worked at forked the open source libraries we modified. If upstream didn’

Take away all the frills and you’re just a contractor. The past two organizations I’ve worked at forked the open source libraries we modified. If upstream didn’t want our changes, so be it. That said, we generally tried to communicate with the maintainers/community to better ensure the change was accepted. What sets you apart from any other contractor?