Saturday, August 30, 2008

Should More Employers Subsidize Open Source Development?

The Hi-Tech Squad raise the interesting question: Should more employers subsidize open source development?

I used to work for Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) who invented the VAX, VMS, main stream 64 bit computing with the Alpha chi and of course Ethernet, to name a few. There was an unwritten rule that you could spend 10% of your time working on other things. Why? Because it broadened your horizons and increased your knowledge. This in turn had a positive effect on the project you where working on.

Google has a similar rule.

Read more here: Should More Employers Subsidize Open Source Development?



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