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1. Cassidy 🔥🐶☕ This is not fine (cassidyjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 19:53:38 UTC Cassidy 🔥🐶☕ This is not fine

   • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   @jwildeboer And I’m saying this having worked on projects on both sides—upstream and downstream. Working with the upstream, contributing directly means you actually get a lot of pull within the project, while also ensuring your needs are considered in future development.

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 19:33:13 UTC Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

     We have seen companies forking open source projects and add features that didn’t go upstream. And how they learned the hard way that this approach means they now “own” their fork and have to support it.

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 20:19:20 UTC Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

     in reply to

     @cassidyjames the big lesson, that is often counterintuitive to hierarchical companies, is that giving up ownership and control in exchange for participation delivers better results, lower cost and more happy people. Weird ;)

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.