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> Retain sufficient in-house production manufacturing that it is possible for future engineers to acquire the skills needed to develop new products, without whi
by baby 3y ago
> Retain sufficient in-house production manufacturing that it is possible for future engineers to acquire the skills needed to develop new products, without which all businesses will fail. Even the work that is out-sourced requires internal expertise to write the specifications.
Damn, that really reminds me of a previous company I worked for, that wanted to replace important core internal libraries with open source libraries. My argument was always that we should always have in-house knowledge of the core technologies. I think a lot of companies fail to think long-term.
> Listen more to your own employees about how to save cost than to any outside business consultants who have never run a factory producing your kind of product. In any event, if the advice they offer changes every year, it cannot possibly be correct.
This one is the difference between management-driven company and engineers-driven company.
- groestl 3y agoOpen source is different, in that you as a company can become maintainer and therefore expert of that component _and_ profit of other work being upstreamed. In case the library is not your USP, I think it's not that clear cut.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoUSP?
- Swenrekcah 3y agounique selling point is my guess
- groestl 3y agoExactly
- groestl 3y agoUnique Selling Proposition. If the thing the library implements does not substantially differentiate your company from others, it's a candidate to be maintained as open source project. For example, just become an expert ffmpeg user if you're a live streaming service. Your USP is your content, transcoding just needs to work. In contrast, if you're Dolby, that would probably not be the right strategy.
- dehrmann 3y agoOr in the context of Boeing, Boeing shouldn't be in the business of making its own bolts. An internal lack of bolt expertise isn't what caused the door plug to fly out.
- hinkley 3y agoI can hire people who have expertise in oss libraries. I have to build people who have expertise in our in house stuff. Importantly, we can sit around and bond over bitching about how bad one of those libraries is. If the authors are or were internal, we are now being divisive and unprofessional.
- AmericanOP 3y agoIts the fundamental flaw of outsourcing manufacturing abroad. You cede all growth from innovation.
- struant 3y agoYeah, but the numbers for this quarter and next quarter look great on paper. The future is just someone else's problem to these assholes.