Re:Give away your code, but never your time
by adekok on Sunday September 10, 2017 @07:14PM
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That's the real answer.
If you spent 1/10 of an engineer on an open source product, and 100 other companies do the same, your company gets much more than it puts in. And because it's open source, you know how to fix it, and you can fix it.
I know of multiple billion-dollar companies who can't get the time of day from Cisco, HP, etc. for bug fixes or new features.
The vendors attitude is: Bought 10M of product in the past year? Meh... piss off. We're working on important customers.
If you spent 1/10 of an engineer on an open source product, and 100 other companies do the same, your company gets much more than it puts in. And because it's open source, you know how to fix it, and you can fix it.
I know of multiple billion-dollar companies who can't get the time of day from Cisco, HP, etc. for bug fixes or new features.
The vendors attitude is: Bought 10M of product in the past year? Meh... piss off. We're working on important customers.