What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source

For our May "Staff Pick" Project of the Month, we selected BlissRoms   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   Issue #78 - May 20, 2020 Sponsor HERE is the #1 Location Platform for Developers Add the power of location to your apps and web services with free access to over 20 market-leading APIs including Mapping, Geocoding, Routing, Traffic, Weather and more. Plus, when you sign up for HERE Freemium, you'll also gain access to the HERE Studio map builder which comes with 5 GB of free storage for all your geodata. Learn more about HERE What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source This week long-time open source advocate Matt Asay warned employers that the best way to keep their developers happy was to let them contribute to open source projects: Read more on Slashdot.org May 2020, "Staff Pick" Project of the Month – BlissRoms For our May "Staff Pick" Project of the Month, we selected BlissRoms, an open source OS based on Android for legacy devices & GSI/Treble. BlissRoms incorporates many customization options and added security features, with a focus on design and performance. It can run on all your devices, preserving customizations and options by syncing across all platforms. Recently we caught up with the BlissRoms team as they shared some thoughts about the project's history, purpose, and direction. 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The planned merger started when Microsoft sought ways to better penetrate the financial software market with their product, Money, which was not performing as well as they had hoped. At the time Intuit's own product Quicken had a commanding market share of 70%. Microsoft first made a $1.5 billion offer to Intuit in 1994, which eventually increased to $2 billion. Almost immediately the Justice Department stepped in and raised concerns that such a merger would result in anticompetitive effects on the personal finance software market. Specifically, the DoJ argued that it would add to the dominance of the top product Quicken, and substantially reduce competition in the market as it would be much more difficult and costly for newer entrants to compete with Quicken. In the end, Microsoft and Intuit agreed to abandon the merger so as to avoid a long and expensive court battle with the Justice Department. Help Wanted Developers needed for help with the LenMus Project. 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