No clue, they're the devs
redjoker
joined 5 years ago
Yeah, most FOSS companies also offer their specific platform for their software for a price. Depending on the complexity of self-hosting it can be much cheaper to just buy access to the platform
Additionally, the source code of free software only needs to be released to your users, not necessarily the general public. This means that if you have a niche client who doesn't want to write their own software, it can be a steady income stream, and you can set it up so they have to be a customer to be an initial user
Advertising departments used to be literally called propaganda departments
Thanks, would that explain the change from TextSecure and RedPhone to their merger into Signal?
Wasn't OpenWhisper Systems, the maintainer of Signal, acquired by Twitter?
They're a role in-between software developers who write the core part of the code of an application and system administrators who maintain the servers that the application runs on. They write the part that allows the application to be deployed consistently
I'm a devops guy, kids don't need to learn how to code, they need way more in the humanities than STEM
Installed, working great