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swiftcoderlast Monday at 6:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Honestly haven't seen many open-source maintainers convert a BigTech downstream into recurring revenue. I'm sure it does happen, but its far from the norm


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Aurornislast Monday at 11:08 PM

If your project gets adopted by Big Tech then your market rate as an engineer just went way up.

It’s a huge badge of honor and a rare accomplishment. You’re thinking too directly if you can’t imagine how having your OSS project adopted by Big Tech isn’t a career boost.

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