a sad trend i’ve noticed is old school #opensource people sell out to their extremely high paying big tech jobs and their dialog around open source becomes legalistic and focused more on things like software licensing and they completely lose the zeal of building in public, for no other reason than to gift others with an interesting idea
@kellogh (serious question, I refused a almost 7 figure job earlier last year to stay at my low 6-figure one, first world problems for sure), what is worth it in that money to sell out (of course assuming you are reasonably secure right now)?
I could pay off my mortgage and sleep soundly that I'd probably be able to avert any crisis happening in the family, but it was not worth my soul (working for someone I despise on something that probably wouldn't be very interesting).
@mnl having worked for AWS, they structure orgs & tools in a way that borrows a lot of concepts from open source. e.g. most repos are public and you can, in fact, contribute to another team’s code base. but there’s a strong divergence in that you have to convince upper management that an idea is good before you put much work into it. “the bottom line” shuts down a lot of really good ideas
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