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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

which corporations arent giving back?

[–] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Even most companies with open source projects rarely "contribute" as much as have source available with a CLA.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

@bagder@mastodon.social (https://mastodon.social/@bagder) did a presentation, and included a slide combo which essentially boiled down to:
Companies using curl: <hundreds>
Companies supporting curl: 0

[–] pankkake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm proud to announce that I've made one (1) contribution to curl at work!

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Wow. Ok give curl more love but that's not all oss

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Take your pick. Where do you work? If they are writing closed source stuff, there's a very big chance they use opensource without paying or contributing back.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Battlefield has parts that run on Godot.

I don't see EA on the donors page.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, EA may be a bad example. I have found EASTL useful.