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I agree with much what you wrote, but why is this cause for happiness? It's basically the end of programming as a profession should every company go that way.
by sfk 11y ago
I agree with much what you wrote, but why is this cause for happiness? It's basically the end of programming as a profession should every company go that way.
- rjbwork 11y agoCan you elaborate on why?
- sfk 11y agoI was referring to "moving into a devices and services model for revenue as opposed to a software licensing model" - which I think is likely. If every company starts doing this (using open source!), the majority of software will be written and maintained by volunteers begging for donations from said companies. What will be left is devops jobs, "full stack" engineers, i.e. all jobs where you can't really focus on developing software. Very few interesting jobs may remain in Microsoft Research.
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- Mordak 11y agoThe other possibility is that if every company starts doing this (using open source!), the majority of software will be written and maintained by employees of said companies. This is already the case for many projects, isn't it? In the case of OpenBSD, several of the core developers are either owners or employees of companies that use OpenBSD in their operations. Some of these companies are infrastructure providers, some are device / appliance vendors, some are consultancy shops...
- jlhenry 11y ago"the majority of software will be written and maintained by volunteers begging for donations from said companies" that is not how it works now so why would that change?
- jlhenry 11y agoplease explain
- morganvachon 11y agoMy statement about "happiness" was not part of the previous paragraph. I'm happy they are contributing to OpenBSD. I'm cautiously optimistic about their sudden benevolence towards open source in general.