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Read the article, these are highly technical, generalized projects. That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned v

• adamsmith143 4y ago
  >That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system. If you think they are getting paid to generate OS projects you aren't thinking about this very hard.
  • mwint 4y ago
    Well, Jane Street paid them to do work they presumably wouldn’t otherwise have done, and that work appears to have made it into OS. So Jane Street’s profiting from this work is irrelevant, they paid for it and we have it.
    • adamsmith143 4y ago
      "I stabbed this child but luckily during the surgery they needed to survive they found a malignant tumor so really I am benevolent and actually saved their life."
  • pdpi 4y ago
    They're getting paid as part of Jane Street's investment into their hiring pipeline. Then the internship projects got published as open source, which also benefits their hiring pipeline. There's nothing untoward about any of that. At the end of the day, they feed their hiring pipeline, interns get work experience and some cash, and we all get some genuinely interesting open source projects. Win/win/win.