Who understands the OSS community?
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| There are a lot of OSS programmers that feel the very same way. We might
| not always agree on certain (technical) issues, but we are proud of our
| work. That is a big difference with the code slaves that work for closed
| source companies. They have very little influence on the work that they
| do, give up their intellectual rights the moment they lift their fingers
| from the keys and get badly paid. And when closed source program is
| horribly made, the true artisan in us is disgusted.
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| When you're doing a OSS project, you do it because you like it. Because
| you have an itch to scratch. And if your humble project is of any use to
| the outside world, you're are emotionally involved to say the least.
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| There is no central OSS or Linux company. What we usually call "Linux"
| is actually a bunch of loosely connected OSS projects. There is no board,
| no CEO, no stock holders, no PR department and you don't have to apply for
| a job.
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