Re:Passing the Baton
by cyphar on Saturday April 29, 2017 @09:18PM
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> yet you somehow failed to tell that to your employer
Were you involved in my hiring process? Are you my manager, or a stakeholder in my employer's business? How could you possibly know that I failed to tell my employer that?
> i think you just have a hard time imagining that what customers pay for isn't R&D
I don't have a problem imagining it, I just don't believe that your customers see it that way. If I was a customer of yours, I would expect that more R&D work would happen because I'm paying you (mainly because I firmly believe in free software businesses and that such R&D should be paid for).
Were you involved in my hiring process? Are you my manager, or a stakeholder in my employer's business? How could you possibly know that I failed to tell my employer that?
> i think you just have a hard time imagining that what customers pay for isn't R&D
I don't have a problem imagining it, I just don't believe that your customers see it that way. If I was a customer of yours, I would expect that more R&D work would happen because I'm paying you (mainly because I firmly believe in free software businesses and that such R&D should be paid for).
> (though we're open to such contract work too).
Heh, so it's not 100% unpaid after all? ;)
> just compare the code of linux 1.0 and 4.11.
Wow, code gets better over time? Holy shit!
> so you can have the last word.
Gladly. :D