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Can't they just be employees? Would any of the FAANGs notice if they started paying a team of 100 mid-level developers? Add a few admin staff to yearly work out
by petesergeant 5y ago
Can't they just be employees? Would any of the FAANGs notice if they started paying a team of 100 mid-level developers? Add a few admin staff to yearly work out who gets to be in the team of 100, or whatever
- saagarjha 5y agoMost open source maintainers can’t and won’t be your employee.
- UncleMeat 5y agoBig companies like Facebook and Google already employ a ton of people whose full time job is OSS work. At Google, the number is definitely larger than 100. And this isn't just mid-level people. There are principal engineers doing this stuff. This does aggravate some of the OSS community, however. Calls of "Google is taking over C++" or "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" are common from the community. This represents a big problem: the community does not agree about what future they want to build.