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It also seems like a good way to get the OSS maintainer familiar with the company in case they ever wanted to have a more direct financial relationship
by humanwhosits 5y ago
It also seems like a good way to get the OSS maintainer familiar with the company in case they ever wanted to have a more direct financial relationship
- convolvatron 5y agoThere used to be (maybe there still is) this kind of situation in the FreeBSD world. Employees became maintainers, maintainers were highly sought after as employees and lots of contracts were signed. It didn’t tick the gpl boxes, but there was a good and healthy dialog between the open and closed sourced worlds and a lot of the maintainers were able to make a good living.