▲ 479 ▼ Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs (www.phoronix.com) submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 84 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children) This doesn't sound like a 40-hour per week kind of a job permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago I doubt maintaining a single deriver was their only responsibility. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Mniot@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago Their "real" job was some standard cog-in-the-machine engineering work, which is why they got laid off. Just another number. Most open-source work happens outside of corporate planning and so it's invisible to the company. When the reality is, it would absolutely be worth it to Intel to pay a 40/w salary just to maintain this little bit of code. The value is there, but the humans running the company would never be able to get over the hurdle of "he's not working very hard so he doesn't deserve the money." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago I doubt maintaining a single deriver was their only responsibility. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mniot@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago Their "real" job was some standard cog-in-the-machine engineering work, which is why they got laid off. Just another number. Most open-source work happens outside of corporate planning and so it's invisible to the company. When the reality is, it would absolutely be worth it to Intel to pay a 40/w salary just to maintain this little bit of code. The value is there, but the humans running the company would never be able to get over the hurdle of "he's not working very hard so he doesn't deserve the money." permalink fedilink source parent