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Re:Why you should contribute to Open Source? by nadam on Monday October 04, 2010 @04:49AM (#1755048)
"Open Source projects offer you a chance to work on something that you want rather than something that others want you to work on."

As far as I am concerned starting my own project is more what I want rather than fixing bugs in other people's complicated code which code might also be philosophically very alien to me. To take compromises there is my day job. To work on cool things I start my own project/startup.

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Re:Why you should contribute to Open Source? by aaronblohowiak on Monday October 04, 2010 @05:25AM (#1755107)
This lecture was given to students to start to understand how real software development works and get an edge on their classmates while applying their technical skills.
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