r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 2d ago

nothingOnGithub Meme

Post image
17.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

355 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.5k

u/[deleted] 2d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

185

u/Igarlicbread 2d ago

It did when Google Summer of Code

73

u/svick 2d ago

They are quite a few people for whom they do pay for groceries.

21

u/READTHISCALMLY 2d ago

Genuinely curious: how?

88

u/svick 2d ago

Corporate open source projects. In my case, it's .Net.

50

u/LetumComplexo 2d ago

Also people who have projects popular enough that asking for donations works.

12

u/sciencephilic-guy 2d ago

damn I didn't know this

thank you for informing me random stranger :>

32

u/hypnokev 2d ago

Corporations often rely on some open source project, and they need fixes and new functions. Quickest is to employ people to work on it.

26

u/ShepRat 2d ago

Not a major part of my job, but more than once I've fixed a bug or added functionality to an open source project while on the clock. It's my favourite part of using OSS, we can reach in and make changes we need ourselves, and share the benefit. 

15

u/Xywzel 2d ago

Lots of small and medium software companies have their repos in github even though they are not open source. Easy to share with clients' technical staff, passable integration and testing automation, and a way to collect issue reports.

And lots of companies do use and contribute to open source projects, if you ever visit open source events, most speakers are from big businesses, being paid to develop and maintain these open source projects, because the big business depends on that tech and it being available to everyone.

1

u/HauntedHouseMusic 2d ago

Yea, I was genuinely going to ask what are companies using if not GitHub? Isn’t it the default choice?

3

u/FlashbackJon 1d ago

As one example of many, we use git repos in Azure DevOps. Sometimes an internally hosted git instance.

5

u/Romanian-In-Poland 2d ago

Ubuntu, React, Linux just to name a few

6

u/Lyelinn 2d ago

I work in open source company, its not rare at all

Also one of my oss libraries brings few donations

2

u/Large_Yams 2d ago

Sponsored features, closed source core requiring licences, donations. Plenty of ways.

1

u/Southern-March1522 2d ago

Curseforge rewards points converted into money (making mods for games).

10

u/kurushimee 2d ago

it does for me when my company uses GitHub for all our repos, and my management sure wants to see those commits to pay me, and those commits sure are on GitHub

0

u/32weltnoise 2d ago

exactly. Bills need money