Your story and mammoth's origin story really highlight how the Sisyphean corporate world is seemingly at odds -- or at least tangential -- to progress.
In the interest of full disclosure it was a government org. Your point still stands though.
> government org
Governments and corporates function incredibly similarly.
Government is a corporation at extreme.
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.
This is true for most popular open source projects, fwiw
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?
Corporate does not care about the job, or the client. Corporate only cares about billable hours.
Predictability, revenue per employee, and predictability of revenue per employee ;)