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Preach! ๐
> ... If a company is building an important product or service on a piece of free software, it behooves that company to ensure that said software is well supported and, if need be, step up to make that happen...
> ... Even a project like the Linux kernel, which has thousands of developers who are paid for their work, struggles to find support for maintainers. Companies, it seems, see maintainership work as overhead at best, helping competitors at worst, and somebody else's problem in any case...
@jlj Didn't read the article, but your quotes seem to be spot on. That's what I experience as well. There might be a slight change, though. Contributing back to upstream now seems to be a tiny bit easier than it used to be from what I grasp. But I personally haven't done that so far. There was no opportunity so far. And I still have to do the mandatory special training which allows me to do so.
@jlj Iโd usually reply with some sarcastic comment, but Iโm on vacation now and I donโt care about greedy companies at the moment. ๐
(Hmm. That might still count as one such comment, huh? ๐ค)
@jlj Iโd usually reply with some sarcastic comment, but Iโm on vacation now and I donโt care about greedy companies at the moment. ๐
(Hmm. That might still count as one such comment, huh? ๐ค)
@jlj Iโd usually reply with some sarcastic comment, but Iโm on vacation now and I donโt care about greedy companies at the moment. ๐
(Hmm. That might still count as one such comment, huh? ๐ค)
@lyse Ah, interesting. I didn't realise there was training involved.
I'd recommend the article. That's a link shared with permission, btw; a capped means of promoting the publication. :-)
@movq lol, yup, definitely counts. ;-) I'm on vacation too now! Whoop!
> writing a program often just becomes an exercise in finding the right modules and gluing them together correctly
> writing a program often just becomes an exercise in finding the right modules and gluing them together correctly
> writing a program often just becomes an exercise in finding the right modules and gluing them together correctly
@jlj At least here we have to do three trainings in order to be allowed to legally contribute. I think it's three, maybe even more. Awareness, Use and Contribute or something along those lines.
@jlj Donโt get fooled by the over hyped up use of the new โDevSecOpsโ ๐
@jlj Donโt get fooled by the over hyped up use of the new โDevSecOpsโ ๐
