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DATE | 2012-04-19 |
FROM | Paul Robert Marino
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The best top down mandate I've ever heard any place I work
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Apr 19 14:03:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id F00D639517; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:03:10 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id DC83649C13; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:03:10 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from mail-gy0-f172.google.com (mail-gy0-f172.google.com [209.85.160.172]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C52B39517 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:03:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ghbg16 with SMTP id g16so5942345ghb.17 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:03:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=TasNr0vmQnqhOuwqv54kGaeyhg1McpAeYSpkuS9F3wI=; b=RpY5HRs4oOqw8Is8BndNOk5a5YUCxkHGzk3iGOwQhP0HJcY5KeIfZprIPFKK9x8RE5 XNVWp2u+mHniN1qlnnO8IBViiJ/h60P4uGwqPhpwPp3OdF+x5V5eVvMJ8VjWQuS0krKk u20s70iTUvy09R25to8pt6PHyZLxozB1YPgKE6oNdBNwh6cRlQQVgfOkSrrGGssrA5JT Kd7gnHGNRDDsvwxijbFvQATZN94rBn2vdQNLkAxUp0tMtVv2AL0cz10b4WjvKfX9BrMm UpcNR99N2uQl8+emqDNckth3QYPLUhbpFkXdyf4nfGjwTXQUOFNjFUsC3gLRZ2fvtoPb XeeQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.20.38 with SMTP id k6mr4448499oee.26.1334858579987; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.62.135 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:02:59 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The best top down mandate I've ever heard any place I work From: Paul Robert Marino To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Get this The management at the broadcasting company I'm working for put out a new mandate last week for all the system staff involved in the broadcasting portion of the company.
" When working with open source or free software employees are required to do the following prior to implementation in production. 1) Report any bugs and workarounds they discover to the original creators of the software and or intermediate support vendor when applicable. 2) Submit all patches developed internally to the original creators of the software and or intermediate support vendor when applicable. "
In other words participation in the project is mandatory as part of our pier review process for any free or open source software we use. There is a lot more to the statement but the short version basically means that as long as we don't reveal sensitive information that applies directly to how we specifically as a company earn revenue or exposes the company to possible legal liability (e.g. like writing a patch that implements patented tech we don't own) we are required to give back to the community. It seams like they actually get how free software actually works, and that's encouraging that large companies that don't produce software themselves are starting to finally understand it.
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