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Oct 16, 2019 at 21:01
I've worked at companies where buying more computers was more affordable than developers, and I've also been at places where it's the opposite. It's really weird having the different mindsets. Sometimes it even varies between teams and I rarely predict it in advance.

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Quantifying Gnome contributions by frequency, tenure, and affiliated companies: https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/ Whilst the methodology can't be perfect, it's a nice way of measuring contribution trends.