"Open source" has pretty much won, in that developers these days expect their tools to be open source and therefore serious tech companies expect to be involved in open source communities in some way in order to be competitive at hiring and retaining engineers. It's just a given. Even Microsoft has turned around. I didn't have a job yet when I got into software, but my impression was that wasn't so clearly the case at the time.
("free software" on the other hand, hasn't won at all, but that's a different story)
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Hey Christine! Thanks for doing this! How has open source changed since you first began contributing?
"Open source" has pretty much won, in that developers these days expect their tools to be open source and therefore serious tech companies expect to be involved in open source communities in some way in order to be competitive at hiring and retaining engineers. It's just a given. Even Microsoft has turned around. I didn't have a job yet when I got into software, but my impression was that wasn't so clearly the case at the time.
("free software" on the other hand, hasn't won at all, but that's a different story)