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- Dec 2018
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www.ashedryden.com www.ashedryden.com
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OSS contribution takes time; I don't think anyone would contest that. Getting familiar with a project, finding out where you can fit into it, reading and responding to issues, testing and submitting patches, writing documentation. All of that requires a good deal of time.
I reached out to a prominent OSS company preferring a "history of open source contributions" and put forward the idea that people who code for a living don't always have the opportunity. The response was surprisingly hostile:
It doesn't exclude anyone. Zero chance I'm going to have a debate about it.
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