Comment on Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work
uberkalden@lemmy.world 8 months agoLol, downvote this guy for pointing out that it might not make sense for your company to pay for your personal projects
I didn’t, but I get why. It’s a specious argument — it doesn’t matter if 99% of them are useless. It matters if the 1% that become ubiquitous for whatever reason provide utility that makes the useless ones worth it.
Yeah you can run a company that never provides any time or resources to tinker, but only if you’re okay with innovation never happening again.
Plus, for that other 99%, the developers probably tried out a new framework or language or something. They aren’t claiming to “know” something based on watching a YouTube vid. It wasn’t wasted time.
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 8 months ago
Maybe because it's a wise investment to encourage knowledge workers gain additional experience working on things they enjoy even if you might not be able to pick up one of those things and directly make another revenue stream out of it.
RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 8 months ago
They kinda covered that in the 2nd paragraph.
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 8 months ago
Fair point.