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If you work somewhere that you feel that talking about a "moral duty" would be laughed out of a room, please take a moment to consider whether you want to conti
by fnord123 4y ago
If you work somewhere that you feel that talking about a "moral duty" would be laughed out of a room, please take a moment to consider whether you want to continue toiling for that organization.
Look at the page for curl.se: Fastly is a sponsor. Look at sqlite's page: Bloomberg is a sponsor. Look at openssls page: nginx, Shiguredo, Activision, and Microsoft are sponsors.
- halJordan 4y agoAll of those companies use all of those tools. Where js the indignation over them only supporting one? I posit that there either is no moral duty as supposed, or its been fulfilled by the single sponsorship. In which case Apple's open-source contributions have paid over their debt multiple times over.
- fnord123 4y ago> Where js the indignation over them only supporting one Most of those companies sponsor many projects. > I posit that there either is no moral duty as supposed, or its been fulfilled by the single sponsorship Maybe but the issue in OP is that Apple has specific hardware requirements and various OSS developers are struggling to support M1 chips without paying out of pocket to support them. Whether it's moral or not, there is definitely a logistics issue between Apple and the very real and very important OSS communities.