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Re:Contributing to the Mozilla code base by nguoi on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:05AM (#20592622)
On that note, why should someone want to contribute to a project controlled by a single company if they don't need those contributions for their business?

Many open source projects are far removed from the ideal of a disjoint group hackers making something nice in their own time. Contributors to Firefox, Chromium, Linux, etc. are usually paid to do work to enable things that the company they work for want[1]. If your contributions are significant but don't further those goals, you may be unable to get them merged. In my opinion, don't devalue your own work when you could spend it on a project of your own, or a smaller project that's genuinely a community effort.

[1] Mozilla, Google (& many from Ubuntu), Intel

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Re:Contributing to the Mozilla code base by lonelappde on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:41PM (#20594930)
I can't find a logical interpretation of this comment. It seems to conflate unrelated issues of open source ad companies.

How does company interest in an open source hurt you? Why can't a corporation be part of the community? How is that in any way against an ideal?

You can fork Firefox if Mozilla rejects your patches.

Even small community hacker project maintainers can reject patches, and you can form of you don't like that.

IMO, don't devalue your work by refusing to work on a project with millions of users and preferring unpopular low impact projects.

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