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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah we are pretty bad at upstreaming too...

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 5 points 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.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"No we're not giving out our IP for free"

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

open source project repos on your company github is how you attract top talent i thought :(