90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housing shortage intensifies

Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by raverbashing on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:22PM (#16925097)

Developers in open source companies do have finite budgets, do have deadlines and have some pressure to innovate.

And yes, they do often work for upstream projects as part of their jobs, pushing for changes they need for their deadlines.

Most of open source work is done by companies. And yes, a lot of them with remote workers.

Though I agree, I don't expect an iPhone to be made remotely though, hardware is complicated.

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Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by jasode on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:38PM (#16925858)

>Developers in open source companies do have finite budgets,

Yes, the employees of companies at Intel, RedHat, and IBM contributing to Linux work within a finite budget (paid salaries) but The Linux Kernel itself does not have a budget. If Intel/RH/IBM all stopped funding programmers to work on Linux, the Linux project would still continue with volunteers. It may continue at a slower pace but it would continue nonetheless.

The point remains: Linux kernel remote workers cannot be used as a case study for businesses to adopt remote telecommuting.

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