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Nobody gets promoted for building open-source software at corpos. It is allowed, at best, not condoned. So what manager is going to go for this? Let's dedicate
by toxik 3mo ago
Nobody gets promoted for building open-source software at corpos. It is allowed, at best, not condoned. So what manager is going to go for this? Let's dedicate our limited resources to gratuitous goodwill work. Carrer suicide, I expect. Unfortunately.
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- GTP 3mo agoHow would you fit Red Hat in this picture? I think the situation could be different, if it is about improving some software the company is using for its business. Not that this happens often, but I think the possibility to persuade managment that improving a piece of software crucial for the company's business is there.
- LtWorf 3mo agoYou mean the company that rescinds your contract if you exercise the rights granted to you by GPL licenses? What about it?
- GTP 3mo agoThey still have people working on FOSS, right? I didn't know about what your saying,but if this is the problem, then what if I gave Canonical as an example?
- LtWorf 3mo agoIsn't canonical the company replacing GNU coreutils with a broken and full of CVE replacement because it doesn't have a copyleft license?