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They drop a zip file with their open source code somewhere on the website at some point, but don't try to upstream patches, work with Linux kernel people in pub
by Firmwarrior 3y ago
They drop a zip file with their open source code somewhere on the website at some point, but don't try to upstream patches, work with Linux kernel people in public, or provide a public git history
To be fair, it's a tough sell to tell your management chain that you have to spend a week every month arguing and refactoring code just to make some internet people happy about it
- justinclift 3y ago> it's a tough sell to tell your management chain ... Sounds like a weird management chain then. Generally I've seen the conversation go along the lines of "we should 'contribute' these changes back, so the upstream people can check them over for bugs, and we don't have to write this stuff again for the next product".
- Firmwarrior 3y agoah, I dunno if anyone in the linux community is really going to be going out of their way to fix MediaTek's shitty code for free as a favor to Amazon