> Managers of software teams (and their bosses, all the way up to CTOs and CEOs) need to allow their engineers to contribute fixes to OSS with the understanding that it helps the community.
I was speaking with a free software developer about a position at her former employer. She warned me that while she enthusiastically recommended most aspects of the job, the worst, most frustrating, and generally unpleasant part of it was dealing with the upstream communities your managers would insist you get patches mainlined into.
The problems are not isolated to greedy employers.
I was speaking with a free software developer about a position at her former employer. She warned me that while she enthusiastically recommended most aspects of the job, the worst, most frustrating, and generally unpleasant part of it was dealing with the upstream communities your managers would insist you get patches mainlined into.
The problems are not isolated to greedy employers.