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.
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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
if you have your engineers developing a feature for selfish reasons, and the code is good, you can share it right?
“No we’re not giving out our IP for free”
open source project repos on your company github is how you attract top talent i thought :(
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.
Yeah we are pretty bad at upstreaming too…
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.