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siliconc0w
1 day ago
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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
If we're doing cynicism - even if you write lovingly hand crafted free range OSS code - EvilCorp can still come along and use it as part of the EvilCorp backend.
Your just working for them for free rather than getting paid.
nzeid
1 day ago
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Nah. Healthy cynicism is using your contributions to gain leverage while interviewing with said EvilCorp. It's not like the OSS is anonymous.
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Your just working for them for free rather than getting paid.