Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs

Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by varispeed on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:20AM (#37306056)

Surely this means they could donate at least $1M a year to the Elixir team?

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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by Incolotopo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:34AM (#37306204)

yes but besides a somehow snarky comment, it doesn't make sense from a company perspective.

This wasn't done to have mone to donate to Elixir but for revenue.

And besides that, you don't even know if they do

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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by varispeed on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:29AM (#37306735)

Big corporations have a habit of promoting open source, then gullible developers produce exceptional work from which said big corporations make millions or billions without paying a penny back.

Then developers learn they can't pay bills with exposure tokens and employment doesn't offer the lifestyle they had hoped for.

But there is no worry, they get replaced by next cohort of gullibles believing in open source.

What I am trying to say, it should be illegal for big corporations to use open source without paying royalties to all contributors.

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