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Open source is a fire-hose of value... (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Wait, what are the original devs getting from it at all? What did they think they were going to get from it?

[–] macumbamacaca@feddit.nl 5 points 10 hours ago

From one project I worked on: a fun community, experience with managing a project, a nice item on my resume, and an unexpected distaste of companies pretending to love open source and not giving anything back.

[–] Drathro@dormi.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

Oftentimes it's someone creating and maintaining a piece of software or tooling for themselves and their own benefit. They just happen to be nice and forward thinking enough to share it.

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

There are donations, even of those big corpo (although way to little).