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In that case project selection is important. Unpaid work towards a project who's main effect will be to reduce licensing costs for fortune 500 companies is very
by jiggy2011 13y ago
In that case project selection is important. Unpaid work towards a project who's main effect will be to reduce licensing costs for fortune 500 companies is very different to working on something to (say) improve educational outcomes for low income children.
- cpursley 13y agoThis is a very narrow perspective. Hacking on open source does increase the education improvement for low income children. Example: Poor kids in Africa now have android phones and have access to open source education materials made possible via open source web technologies.
- jiggy2011 13y agoAndroid is developed mainly by paid engineers, not people giving their time as "civic duty".
- cpursley 13y agoWhat is Android based on? Linux.
- pmh 13y agoLinux kernel development is also primarily[1] done by paid engineers [1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/04/linux-foundation-releases-annual-linux-development-report http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012...
- pjmlp 13y agoLinux wouldn't be where it is today without the work of full time engineers paid to work on it.