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Indie devs are the true heroes of OSS (programming.dev)
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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I read this as Indian the first time lmao

[–] x_pikl_x@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What part of this is "humor"?

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Big bad corporations. Hahahhaah

Amirrite!

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

which corporations arent giving back?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago

Take your pick. Where do you work? If they are writing closed source stuff, there's a very big chance they use opensource without paying or contributing back.

[–] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Even most companies with open source projects rarely "contribute" as much as have source available with a CLA.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

@bagder@mastodon.social (https://mastodon.social/@bagder) did a presentation, and included a slide combo which essentially boiled down to:
Companies using curl: <hundreds>
Companies supporting curl: 0

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Wow. Ok give curl more love but that's not all oss

[–] pankkake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm proud to announce that I've made one (1) contribution to curl at work!

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Battlefield has parts that run on Godot.

I don't see EA on the donors page.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but they give to open source https://www.ea.com/seed/open-source

[–] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, EA may be a bad example. I have found EASTL useful.