But I also harp a lot to my superiors about donating to open-source projects we utilize, make loads of money thanks to them, yet never give anything back.

I kinda get that some projects with limited backing can't "get their shit together", when successful users don't give them anything. It's a stupid pattern, and I hope we can break it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

i think we could bake some form of "free for personal use, paid for corporate use" clause in our foss licenses tbh

[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that is necessary, as some companies do actually help, either with money or even dedicated staff, which can be as good or better.

We should push for developers to promote the idea of more help towards FOSS projects, maybe find some hours a month, or send any money saved from not paying for licenses.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

on the other hand we get situations where we have a single dev maintaining some essential part of tge stack, for free.

i think pushing for more help is just a piece of this puzzle.

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Lose the critical part of your business, see how fast you can move around it.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

The xkcd random dude in Nebraska

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