Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
by palata on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:26AM
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> is a reflection of what people dream of, not reality.
Only if you understand it as "open source everything", it is a dream. But that is not what I say. What I say is that as a developer, you should try to open source as much as you can. Many times that's not nothing.
It's really mostly a matter of thinking about it and seizing the opportunities.
Related is also: don't be afraid to depend on copyleft libraries! As an employee, it's beneficial: it means that you have to contribute back (actually not exactly, but managers usually don't get the details so you can get away with it :-) ).
Only if you understand it as "open source everything", it is a dream. But that is not what I say. What I say is that as a developer, you should try to open source as much as you can. Many times that's not nothing.
It's really mostly a matter of thinking about it and seizing the opportunities.
Related is also: don't be afraid to depend on copyleft libraries! As an employee, it's beneficial: it means that you have to contribute back (actually not exactly, but managers usually don't get the details so you can get away with it :-) ).