If your employer gave you €1000 (or $1000) to spend on open source projects that support your work, where would this money go and why?
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If your employer gave you €1000 (or $1000) to spend on open source projects that support your work, where would this money go and why?
Haelwenn /элвэн/
in reply to Thib • • •Would go to the core dependencies, which for mine would be something like the maintainers of: tcl, expect, groff, pax, git, gcc, musl. Plus few distros.
And with more of it going towards ones which are typically forgotten by corporate donations.
Michael Simons
in reply to Thib • • •Michel Sardon 🎸
in reply to Thib • • •Marty Fouts
in reply to Thib • • •My pocket. Because, like the vast majority of open source developers, my employer paid(1) me to develop open source software.
It is a weird dichotomy that much open source, especially Linux, is heavily funded by corporations, while some open source, for example curl, receives barely any funding.
(1) paid rather than pays because I am retired.
Dennis Heinrich
in reply to Thib • • •Thib
in reply to Thib • • •For me I think I would spend it as
- €260 on @gnome (price of a Win 11 Pro licence)
- €100 to @YaLTeR for Niri
- €100 to @flathub
- €349 on @kdenlive (price of a Final Cut Pro licence)
- €50 on @thunderbird
- €50 on Helix
- The rest as tips for small utilities that make my life easier
pietro
in reply to Thib • • •debgl
in reply to Thib • • •Tom
in reply to Thib • • •A
in reply to Thib • • •And I'll divide it into three parts:
One third I'll give to @protonprivacy
One third I'll give to @GrapheneOS.
And one third I'll give to the developers of @fedora .
@thibaultamartin
Lorraine Lee
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Shin.Ice
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in reply to Shin.Ice • • •Lorraine Lee
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in reply to Thib • •Olivier Mengué
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