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1 | 0The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software (Working Knowledge) null/LWN/0000764321 70\r |
| 2 | i [Briefs] Sep 6, 2018 16:56 UTC (Thu) (corbet)\r | |
| 3 | i\r | |
| 4 | i The Harvard Business School's "Working Knowledge" site has an\r | |
| 5 | i article arguing that it can pay for companies to allow their\r | |
| 6 | i developers to contribute back to the projects whose software\r | |
| 7 | i they use. "And that presents an interesting dilemma for firms\r | |
| 8 | i that rely heavily on open source. Should they allow employees\r | |
| 9 | i on company time to make updates and edits to the software for\r | |
| 10 | i community use that could be used by competitors? New research\r | |
| 11 | i by Assistant Professor Frank Nagle, a member of the Strategy\r | |
| 12 | i Unit at Harvard Business School, shows that paying employees\r | |
| 13 | i to contribute to such software boosts the company’s\r | |
| 14 | i productivity from using the software by as much as 100\r | |
| 15 | i percent, when compared with free-riding competitors."\r | |
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