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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (10 children)

They.... Usually don't.

Not a single company I've worked for actually makes FOSS contributions to the dependencies they rely upon.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    They usually don't but some do. I'm only cherry picking this because I don't know much about Big Tech and FOSS. Bootstrap was developed in Twitter, React is maintained by Facebook/Meta, AngularJS was maintained by Google in the past but it's now discontinued. Google also has Summer of Code. I'm not a Big Tech shill but the larger ones do make some contributions.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, they do, but it's still pennies to the dollar, and usually they only do because it benefits them to do so.

    Companies using open source must be forced to contribute back fairly

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    You're talking about absolutely massive companies who represent their own shared interests. And just by volume, they will produce an open source projects through engineering culture variation within a company itself.

    And represent only a fractional part of the tech workforce and companies that don't contribute back to open source.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Then you work for shitty little companies. These companies put in millions a year.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://opensourcefundingsurvey2024.com/

    Jackass. It's not hard to even attempt to look into this shit. But this place is only for circlejerks 🤦‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I mean when you're only here to call people names like a petulant child. Don't expect good conversation.

    I'd rather a place be filled with circle jerkers than assholes.

    I'd rather not either, which is kind of why I came to Lemmy instead of being on Reddit. Perhaps you have found yourself lost?

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