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> there needs to be a way of getting paid You said you worked on the library at Intel. Doesn’t that qualify as getting paid for your work? That’s not the usua
by jiofih 5y ago
> there needs to be a way of getting paid
You said you worked on the library at Intel. Doesn’t that qualify as getting paid for your work?
That’s not the usual setup when developers talk about getting paid for their OSS contributions, usually off the clock, so its not clear what the lesson is here besides politics/resourcing at big co (which is a real but distinct problem).
This situation was supposed to be where OSS shines - instead of a dedicated team subject to the will of a single private corporation, a project should have multiple contributors, working on their employers’ time - then there is no central team to be disbanded.
- op00to 5y agoNot always. Might be a personal project.
- unreal37 5y agoIt was an Intel project. https://github.com/intel/hyperscan/ https://github.com/intel/hyperscan/
- glangdale 5y agoFair enough - my complaint is a bit too compressed. The point here is that my experience at Intel led me to realize that corporate OSS users will take your library in secret and not even tell you - much less publicly acknowledge it, much less contribute or help support it. Obviously I'm not expecting to be paid extra while at Intel because folks are using a library. It's just rather discouraging from the perspective of working on anything else OSS as an independent developer - unless it's a pure passion project. Given that the stuff I'm interested in often tends to wind up being hauled into high-performance infrastructure that's kind of important to bigcos, it's a bit depressing. The whole multiple contributors thing is a great theory and works for some high-gloss, high-profile projects. There's a huge tail of OSS where the expertise just isn't there and most companies just want to free ride.
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- mellavora 5y agoNeed to justify the time spent on it to management.
- watwut 5y agoBased on FOSS surveys I have seen, majority of OSS contributions are paid for that way. The off the clock for free contributions are smaller part of it all. I think the off-the-clock long term OSS maintenance is rare, because it is actual work. And contrary to stereotype, no matter how passionate you are, you will burn out if you work two full time jobs at the same time.
- barrkel 5y ago> You said you worked on the library at Intel. Doesn’t that qualify as getting paid for your work? It just shifts the problem along; instead of getting paid, you need to justify to Intel why they should pay you. Showing that you're keeping customers happy, building Intel brand value etc. can be part of that, but only if they give you feedback.