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Re:Give away your code, but never your time by CM30 on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:45AM (#15217484)
This is something I've been thinking about for a while as well. All these companies with regularly updated blogs, super active social media feeds, employees sent to present/attend every week or so and open source project development being done in house...

Do they ever do any actual work? Because every company I've seen or worked for has wondered just how they have the free time to do all this stuff with bill paying client work to attend to or a product/service to maintain.

Or do they simply have a one hour work week like a fictional character would?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneHourWorkWeek

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Re:Give away your code, but never your time by icebraining on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:39AM (#15217728)
It's just marketing. Rather than spend $$$ running ads they spend a few hours of their workers' time updating blogs and social media. Open source serves the same purpose, plus you might get some external contributions. And it might create a social environment that pushes your employees to work on their free time.
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