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He gave them so much free labor
by wahnfrieden 7mo ago
He gave them so much free labor
- johng 7mo agoThis... they really owe him something, IMHO. Hell, discounted service so he can make a better margin on Tarsnap sounds good to me!
- cperciva 7mo agoI do have a few "free" AWS accounts! But they're for FreeBSD stuff (development, publishing official images, and FreeBSD infrastructure which Amazon hosts) -- I would never use them for my business. I'm sure I could get away with it and nobody at Amazon would even notice, but it's the principle of the thing.
- iceman28 7mo agoIt was a different time when software was seen as something that was built together and everyone was interested in learning the best from one another.
- surgical_fire 7mo agoNo, it was really not. His tale is from mid-2000s, not from mid-1980s. In mid 2000s these companies were already operating in the billions and their engineers were already well compensated, and it was known. Hell, "Cracking the Coding Interview" came out in 2008. Getting a job at those companies at the time was already something coveted because of how well they paid.
- aleph_minus_one 7mo ago> In mid 2000s these companies were already operating in the billions and their engineers were already well compensated, and it was known. Perhaps in the USA, but in many other countries this does for sure not hold.
- RyJones 7mo agoHe wants to evangelize, spread, and support FreeBSD adoption; this free labor helps in this.