>I've known some brilliant engineers who don't care at all for open source code
The obvious irony here is those "brilliant" engineers will use open source code even though they don't care for it.
The obvious irony here is those "brilliant" engineers will use open source code even though they don't care for it.
They might not care about the company they are applying to opensourcing their code. Plus you have to try really hard nowadays to not use any open source code at all
Depends on the license of the OSS and wether you're distributing or hosting the code that relies on it.
Not every project is web.
I didn't said that. I have just pointed that even close source developers are using open source when working daily on their closed source projects. So saying they don't care about something they use daily is ....wrong. Also I didn't said anything about their level of brilliance :)
>Not ever project is web.
The snark level, off the charts....
Its not. They just dont care if something is open source or not. Maybe they would happily use a free, closed source library instead.
When I said "entirely closed source projects" I meant that literally - some projects have no open source elements. They're written in closed source languages that you have to pay for, with closed source libraries and frameworks that you also have to pay for. They tend to be things like control systems in small industries, unusual embedded systems, and so on.
The software industry is big and hard to make general statements about. "All developers will use open source code" is not true.
Contributing back, or even announcing to the world that such packages are used is not even a thing.
A lot of people don't care about cars but will still own one to drive to work every day. It's just a tool.