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A lot of these are added because "open" source authors these days depend on their corporate masters. Adding a CoC provides one with: 1) At least one month of m
by alqrx 6y ago
A lot of these are added because "open" source authors these days depend on their corporate masters. Adding a CoC provides one with:
1) At least one month of meetings, drafts and otherwise easy "work".
2) Increasing one's personal brand and marketability inside the corporation and on Twitter.
3) Increasing one's non-meritocratic influence inside the project.
So we are back to the title of this submission: Red tape is introduced in "open" source because corporate money destroys it.
- yoz-y 6y agoThe 1. assumes that engineers like going to meetings to have 'easy' work and I honestly never met one that would prefer spending a month in meetings and writing docs over almost anything else.