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DATE | 2012-04-19 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The best top down mandate I've ever heard any
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Apr 19 15:33:56 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id 32103529E9; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:33:56 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id 1CBB55445E; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:33:56 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDEE6529E9 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:33:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.0.17] (www2.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4DD28441; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:33:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4F906899.8000009-at-panix.com> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:33:45 -0400 From: Ruben Safir User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 SUSE/3.1.20 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com CC: Paul Robert Marino Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The best top down mandate I've ever heard any place I work References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
On 04/19/2012 02:02 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > 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.
Yeah - the Media companies have been byting the hand that feeds it since the Titanic or even before.
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