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Depends. Giving $1m to free open source is “bad” but hiring 4 engineers and have them write core code and then open source that is good. Microsoft basically doe

Depends. Giving $1m to free open source is “bad” but hiring 4 engineers and have them write core code and then open source that is good. Microsoft basically does this (more than 4 of course)

richardwhiuk 3y ago
Giving $1m, maybe, giving $10bn, yeah, they'd definitely boot him.
JCharante 3y ago
Because you pseudo control the direction of the projects by having people contribute full time
throw0101c 3y ago
> Giving $1m to free open source is “bad” but hiring 4 engineers and have them write core code and then open source that is good. Microsoft basically does this (more than 4 of course) Apple bought CUPS (printing) and now owns it and hired the original developer (who left at some point): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sweet_(programmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sweet_(programmer)
- prirun 3y ago
  They ought to hire him back. When I upgrade my Macbook Pro to Monterey, it no longer prints to my Canon D530 printer. I have to copy files to a 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Mac Mini and then send them to the printer. Yay progress!