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Comment by TwistedWeasel | Hacker News Reader

So, they want lots of engineers to do work for them and then only pay the one they like?

I was at their meetup yesterday. What you're implying is definitely _not_ the vibe.

I thought Netflix OSS is great. They're opensourcing something like 30 projects, putting on super well organized meetups with expo like rooms where you can pick Netflixers brain about the software and their internal systems in general, free food&beers, free Ts, etc. It was great.

They do it go give back to the community, to get patches and ports from the community, and hiring of course, there's nothing wrong with that!

I was there too. I went with a coworker who is a former Netflix employee. He was almost celebrating with each announcement. His biggest complaint about working at a startup is not having access to the tools they have built up. Netflix has built up an amazing platform that is tightly integrated with AWS. By making these tools open source our little startup has a quicker route to a robust and scalable platform. In my opinion that is awesome.

Or, they're encouraging developers to have fun with their open source projects and putting a prize at the end of it. It's not like there's someone twisting the ends of his moustache contemplating turning them closed source once they've got some good code on there.

The want lots of engineers to do open source development licensed under the Apache License. And they will pay 10 that they like.

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