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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by ebiester on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:19AM (#25160616)
That doesn't solve the problem completely, though, as truly fixing it requires review time with the existing team. It's still unpaid labor, but now it involves code review and collaboration.

I think we still need people paying open source contributors.

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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by zamalek on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:27AM (#25161939)
Agreed. It does bring the egos to the altruistic water, other arguments become much easier once they have experience with the value of OSS participation.

Furthermore, if a company has a culture of fixing things in open source, people are exposed to it. I can guarantee that many great potential personal time contributors have never been shown the door.

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