Paying people to work on open source is good actually - eviltoast
  • Evotech@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    At my work we use a few open source projects in critical infra, but I’m sad that we are pretty shit at budgeting for donating to said projects

    • Kissaki@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      If budgeting donations is difficult, maybe donating time is more viable?

      Employees are already paid for. Less people involved to approve too.

      If you have the autonomy you may even be able to to without explicit approval.

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      At my work, I can be probably safely assume there is no such budget and in fact open source projects are actively used to create our own branded products (that may or may not be exclusively used internally).

      You probably only need a few guesses at where I work.

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      9 months ago

      if you have your engineers developing a feature for selfish reasons, and the code is good, you can share it right?