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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 19:08:58 JST Drew DeVault

   Hot take, megacorp employees are better Linux kernel community members than randos with a Patreon

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 19:08:58 JST Drew DeVault

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     1. Appeal to a kernel maintainer to approve your changes in their subsystem, they say no
     2. Complain about them to a general public which has no stake in the matter or domain knowledge about it
     3. The gatekeeper is still in charge of the gate and now they don't like you
     4. ????

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 19:09:27 JST Drew DeVault

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     (This post is not about Rust in Linux or the Asahi folks)

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     James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 22:10:39 JST James Just James

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     @drewdevault I hear you. Fund the same number of individuals, the same average amounts that megacorps are paying, and I think we'll see how much more we appreciate the individuals.

     I get your point, but I think most of the "non-constructive/bad behaviour" on the megacorp side is hidden from view.

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     James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 22:10:40 JST James Just James

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     @drewdevault Not defending anyone's behaviour here, but if you don't think there is horrible behaviour inside these megacorp companies, you are uninformed. The only difference is the open source community is transparent about more of it. Meanwhile, megacorp does lots of evil political stuff which benefits only them.

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 22:10:40 JST Drew DeVault

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     • James Just James

     @purpleidea I'm not defending megacorps generally, not by a long shot. I'm only saying exactly what I wrote: employees of megacorporations are more constructive participants in the community on average compared to individuals with a Patreon account.