So, you would work for free for your employer?
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grue@lemmy.world 9 months agoWhy don’t you just gift away your software than?
Because I don’t make those decisions; my employer does. They ought to give it away, but they don’t.
(The software I’ve worked on has tended to be either (a) tools for internal company use or (b) stuff used by the government/large companies where the revenue would definitely have come from a support contract even if the code itself were free.)
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 9 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That question is a red herring. My employer isn’t paying me to write software; they’re paying me to write the software they want instead of the software I want to make.
psud@aussie.zone 9 months ago
ParsnipWitch seems to have been eaten by a grue.
Dethedrus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s what happens when you forget to cast Frotz.