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The last company I worked at had several people employed that had a max 20% time for open source rule. To do more or less exactly what you just said. If all co
by herbst 5y ago
The last company I worked at had several people employed that had a max 20% time for open source rule. To do more or less exactly what you just said.
If all companies would don't care, open source wouldn't be there where it is.
- onion2k 5y agoThere's a huge difference between giving engineers 20% time to work on open source code, and choosing to fix a memory leak by debugging the OS rather than using a health monitor to automatically restart an app. For a start, there's no guarantee that the devs will succeed. It might be a huge waste of time. That's a massive risk.
- xorcist 5y ago"Debugging the OS" sounds not just a little bit pretentious. Perhaps call it "troubleshooting" instead, because that's what's being done. That the problem was found in a driver doesn't make it any different from faulty shell script or a faulty hard disk.
- ajuc 5y ago> That's a massive risk. Leaving a leak in your code base is a risk too. What if it scales with something outside of your control and suddenly you have to restart every 15 seconds?
- herbst 5y agoSure there is, however our company and debug culture also did not take restarts as a solution for memory leaks either. Sometimes quality matters more than money