Convincing Your Employer to Support FOSS
The remainder of this chapter addresses how to convince your employer to support free and open source software projects and communities. It’s a question that I hear so often that not including it would have been negligent. Note that I say “convince” here, not force, cajole, blackmail, whine, or complain your way to getting your employer to support FOSS. Stamping your little princess foot and demanding the company do something is unlikely to get you the results you want. Instead, you’ll need to understand the company’s perspective and help the company understand why supporting free and open source software is in its best interests as well as those of the community.
What Type of Support?
While allowing you ...
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