ruphus13 writes "A lot of developers for Open Source have full-time day jobs too. As Milton Friedman said, "The business of business is business". So, does it make sense for companies to encourage their developers to contribute to the Open Source community? The article makes the case of why they should. "While I don't think we'll ever see companies everywhere subsidizing employee development of open source tools, many tech and non-tech companies alike could benefit from subsidizing open source development from employees with talent. If more companies woke up to this idea, we'd see more purpose-driven, mission-critical open source software shared by firms in the same industries. That, ultimately, would benefit the companies providing the subsidies."..."Companies like IBM, Intel, SGI, MIPS, Freescale, HP, etc. are all working to ensure that Linux runs well on their hardware. That, in turn, makes their offerings more attractive to Linux users, resulting in increased sales.". Should your employer pay you for time spent on Open Source development?" Link to Original Source
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