I'm not good enough to work on open source software

Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by jonstjohn on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:00PM (#3741373)

My company, probably like many, uses a majority of open source software but rarely contributes back. As an aspiring open source developer (several projects in the works, not yet released), this has always felt wrong. Honestly, I haven't really raised it much with my company, though. Guilty as charged, although we've made some movement to release a few bits of code under an open license.

Interesting thing is that we currently give 1% of our profits to an environmental program through Patagonia called 1% for the Planet. Maybe we need a 1% for Open Source where companies can be encouraged to contribute developer or $$ to open source projects. Anybody want to work on that?

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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by antirez on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:27PM (#3742104)

"Interesting thing is that we currently give 1% of our profits to an environmental program through Patagonia called 1% for the Planet."

I think you are already doing it right, honestly. If you devolve 1% to whatever non-profit / good cause IMHO it's already enough. The real problem is that most companies will not do anything like that (1% is a lot), otherwise a few 1% to environment, a few 1% to open source, the world wold be a different place, entirely.

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