[Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

[Domen Kožar]

What usually happens in "bigger" enterprises is that they hire someone
internally that doesn't have enough expertise and then he/she would bug
upstream developers to provide help for free. That's where we have a
problem in general :)

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/08/2015 05:22 PM, Domen Kožar wrote:
> > There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open source
> > instead of expecting free labor, but we're not there yet :-)
>
> What works well IMO is that company wants to use an open-source tool
> (e.g. nix*) to do something (e.g. CI), but some pieces are missing, so
> they pay some experienced freelancer(s) from the community to get the
> work done. During that, some improvements to the tool might be done and
> contributed to the community afterwards.
>
> Vladimir
>
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