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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by yreg on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:22AM (#30113713)
_as part of their work_ means during their billed work time.
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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by swiftcoder on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:20AM (#30114873)
In that case, no, almost no FAANG employees do that. I would have had to file paperwork and receive legal signoff for each individual patch to any open-source projects that weren't owned by the company.

What does exist is specially "blessed" FAANG teams who are cleared to contribute to specific open-source projects that are critical to the business. Amazon has a team who contributes to the linux kernel for hypervisor support, for example.

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