Coding and the Meaning of Life

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 3, 2009 5:27 PM EDT
LinuxInsider; By Katherine Noyes
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FOSS coders are a strange breed. Many devote years of their lives and unquantifiable amounts of their passion to a job that may return nothing in the way of concrete rewards. It can, in fact, be thankless -- FOSS coders may get ridicule and criticism instead of riches. Why do they do it? "[Humans] need a purpose in life," says blogger Robert Pogson, "and for some, that purpose includes coding."

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