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Your story and mammoth's origin story really highlight how the Sisyphean corporate world is seemingly at odds -- or at least tangential -- to progress.
by musingsole 5y ago
Your story and mammoth's origin story really highlight how the Sisyphean corporate world is seemingly at odds -- or at least tangential -- to progress.
- DrOctagon 5y agoIn the interest of full disclosure it was a government org. Your point still stands though.
- yunohn 5y ago> government org Governments and corporates function incredibly similarly.
- myth_buster 5y agoGovernment is a corporation at extreme.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoCorporate does not care about the job, or the client. Corporate only cares about billable hours.
- xcambar 5y agoPredictability, revenue per employee, and predictability of revenue per employee ;)
- leros 5y agoI'm just thinking about how mammoth.js is being developed for free but is being used by corporations to make money. In a way, he's working for free by making this open source. Something is off about that.
- kevinmchugh 5y agoThis is true for most popular open source projects, fwiw
- nullsense 5y agoThen again, a lot of us have paying jobs because of companies that are leveraging open source software. So... I guess it's some kind of altruistic strategy that helps us devs survive better in aggregate?