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TRS80 comics (at least the ones I find online) aren't tutorials, more like a Radio Shack/DC comics marketing collaboration. Certainly a lot of people donate th
by nir 16y ago
TRS80 comics (at least the ones I find online) aren't tutorials, more like a Radio Shack/DC comics marketing collaboration.
Certainly a lot of people donate their time to open source projects. Many of them do it while being paid by a company or a university to work on that code. Many others later us it as a base to start companies or consulting careers.
There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but _why did stand out, especially among the Ruby community in the mid '00s, as someone who could easily make $200/hr consulting, and chose not to do so. I don't know many (of course there are some) who willingly choose that path.
Otherwise we pretty much agree :)
- jacquesm 16y agoI'm referring to a very wide (at least 45 cm wide by 25 high) volume of about 200 pages that came with those first machines to teach you basic. The whole thing was a running cartoon and by the end you could write simple programs. The Radio Shack/DC comics stuff is definitely not what I refer to. And we don't know if why didn't choose to do $200/hr consulting jobs, he may have done the _why thing on the side.