I would say, yes, they do support me working on open-source, but mostly as a way to get my job done. So, for work, I have fixed bugs in open-source projects we depend on and I have open-sourced some of our code (that I had to write for us -- the open-sourcing wasn't much more work).
Without asking, I could have forked the projects and fixed the bugs for us, but with a small process, I can just contribute it back (which is the preferable way, but requires some permission).
Without asking, I could have forked the projects and fixed the bugs for us, but with a small process, I can just contribute it back
AND also shares the burden of maintainance with the community, which makes total business sense even from a totally selfish point of view. Just imagine the cost of internally backporting lots of little patches.
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I would say, yes, they do support me working on open-source, but mostly as a way to get my job done. So, for work, I have fixed bugs in open-source projects we depend on and I have open-sourced some of our code (that I had to write for us -- the open-sourcing wasn't much more work).
Without asking, I could have forked the projects and fixed the bugs for us, but with a small process, I can just contribute it back (which is the preferable way, but requires some permission).
AND also shares the burden of maintainance with the community, which makes total business sense even from a totally selfish point of view. Just imagine the cost of internally backporting lots of little patches.