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The average "member of the community" is a "corporate user." In my experience, OSS is frequently written in IC's on-the-clock discretionary time in an official,
by rexpop 4y ago
The average "member of the community" is a "corporate user." In my experience, OSS is frequently written in IC's on-the-clock discretionary time in an official, sponsored capacity. It might even be ticketed!
And when those contributors pull in 3rd party tolls and libraries to complete their work, that's when they inhabit the roll of "the average package management user."
To what "community" do you refer that's outside of commercial activity?
- woodruffw 4y agoThe people who this work is ostensibly meant to fund: the ones who engage in open source because they think it’s the right thing to do, or because they’re hobbyists, or they just like helping others. To be clear, I am both: I am paid professionally as a software developer, and I’m a member of the open source community for my own reasons. My job already pays me, so the question of compensation is meant to pertain to the latter category.