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Interesting point on open source, but many popular open source projects are all or partially supported by paid positions. And I don’t think all current business

Interesting point on open source, but many popular open source projects are all or partially supported by paid positions. And I don’t think all current businesses would be viable without leveraging open source. Software Engineers have some leverage, but not a lot and not uniformly. The way to get more would be to get better at organizational politics, but that isn’t typically of interest to many software engineers.

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Jochim 5y ago
The disappointing thing from my point of view is the number of companies that have no interest in contributing anything back to the open source community that they benefit from. My employer benefits from a great number of open source tools but we have no policy in place for contributing anything back. In terms of negative effects the companies who resell or provide competing services without approaching the maintainers first are even worse. It's technically legal, but it's effectively a giant fuck you to the spirit and community. In terms of leverage it's the ability to put food on the table and maintain a decent standard of living that has the most effect. To this end I'd rather see UBI and unionisation over everyone continuing to play stupid games where we all pretend we aren't there to maintain a decent standard of living.
- InvaderFizz 5y ago
  > The disappointing thing from my point of view is the number of companies that have no interest in contributing anything back to the open source community that they benefit from. At my company we have a policy of upstreaming changes where possible just for the pragmatic stance of reduced engineer time maintaining forks.