Interesting idea Harsh. As Noufal said, I would say a few companies, e.g. Red Hat, IBM LTC , Intel's open source technology center, etc, are doing pretty commendable work in open source by hiring open source devs( kernel maintainers, etc)
cheers ashish sent from mobile device ; excuse typos & auto-correct errors : On Nov 21, 2015 8:24 AM, "Noufal Ibrahim KV" <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21 2015, Harsh Gupta wrote: > > > [...] > > > So, what do you think about it? > [...] > > I'm sceptical of organisations and much prefer that companies directly > hire people to work on free software rather than first make x, then > donate a small fraction of x to some organisation who then donate a > fraction of that to the actual people who do the work from which said > company profits. > > I think the historical shift from "free software" to "open source" has > encourage a culture of parasitism in many commercial entities and they > view open source as just a way to get good people without paying > salaries. That's what needs to change. > > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
