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I wonder how much open source software sits under what’s required to create this post, and that powers Bloomberg. I also wonder how much Bloomberg pays open source projects.

I got a paywall though so I can’t read the article. I guess there’s some irony there.

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Bloomberg is certainly one of the better companies for reciprocal contribution. I use some of their projects, like memray, daily, and I've seen them contribute to a great many projects.

Financial contribution, I have no idea, but imo I value code contributions higher. Really depends on what you personally want out of your open source projects.

That’s great, and I’m with you on valuing code much more than financial contribution - that’s the spirit of open source.

But the article seems to point the other way, piling on the idea that OSS contributors need to be paid in cash directly somehow (haven’t read, paywall)?

I used to work at Bloomberg. They do use plenty of open-source software, but they also open-source some of their own work, and they do support other projects, e.g. sqlite.

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