[musingsole]

Your story and mammoth's origin story really highlight how the Sisyphean corporate world is seemingly at odds -- or at least tangential -- to progress.

[DrOctagon]

In the interest of full disclosure it was a government org. Your point still stands though.

[yunohn]

> government org

Governments and corporates function incredibly similarly.

[myth_buster]

Government is a corporation at extreme.

[leros]

I'm just thinking about how mammoth.js is being developed for free but is being used by corporations to make money. In a way, he's working for free by making this open source. Something is off about that.

[nullsense]

Then again, a lot of us have paying jobs because of companies that are leveraging open source software. So... I guess it's some kind of altruistic strategy that helps us devs survive better in aggregate?

[kevinmchugh]

This is true for most popular open source projects, fwiw

[eurasiantiger]

Corporate does not care about the job, or the client. Corporate only cares about billable hours.

[xcambar]

Predictability, revenue per employee, and predictability of revenue per employee ;)