Or at least some employees do. At some companies it happens unofficially because the company actively forbids or requires an onerous approval process to contribute to open source.
I get a bit ticked off that companies get credit for contribution or projects and the individuals actively behind those contributions and projects are largely uncredited, especially when it only happens against the wishes of the company, that retroactively decides it’s good press to take credit for their employees’ work.
I heard rumors that sony does contribute back to FreeBSD, but privately.
https://safereddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ut1dd6/how_much_did_sony_contribute_to_the_freebsd/
Or at least some employees do. At some companies it happens unofficially because the company actively forbids or requires an onerous approval process to contribute to open source.
I get a bit ticked off that companies get credit for contribution or projects and the individuals actively behind those contributions and projects are largely uncredited, especially when it only happens against the wishes of the company, that retroactively decides it’s good press to take credit for their employees’ work.