Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?

Re:Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs? by kami8845 on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @10:50AM (#4969600)

I'm curious, are there any other examples of people changing the world through their open source work other than Linus?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs? by handzhiev on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @11:07AM (#4969678)

Thousands I guess. Take Wordpress for example. Didn't it change the world? Take PHP itself, or Perl. Didn't they?

Also, I think the phrase "change the world" is overrated. Sometimes it's not less important to keep the world running, which also requires constant work and a lot of human genius.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs? by prakashk on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @01:19PM (#4970213)

You seriously don't think Linus is solely responsible for Linux, do you?

He should and does get the credit for having the insight and chops to have started it all, and is the single-most important person for Linux, but today's Linux is the result of the work of thousands of programmers.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs? by tsm on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @11:10AM (#4969687)

rms, jwz, Guido, Matz, DHH, Shuttleworth, even Rasmus, the many contributors to GNU, gcc, Firefox...

Imagine the software landscape as it would be right now with no free software whatsoever. Then imagine the hundreds of brilliant people required to devise and lead each of those projects...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs? by felipebueno on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @11:27AM (#4969775)

What about Richard Stalman (before Linus), the Apache Group (before Linus) and Mozilla? And I am pretty sure there are plenty more examples.

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