How I've started to contribute to open source

Re:How I've started to contribute to open source by Yoric on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @10:42AM (#2584121)

I believe that most open-source developers started by scratching one of their itches. Probably quite a few, too, by just open-sourcing academic work.

Now, I wonder: how many coders did start by being ordered by their boss to open-source their code and/or to contribute to an existing open-source project?

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Re:How I've started to contribute to open source by leon_ on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @10:58AM (#2584166)

I don't know if such bosses exist. Many of my programmer friends would like to make their stuff opensource but their bosses (companies) forbid it. Though it's mostly really useful but not "trade secret" stuff.

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