Before FOSS contributions looked good on résumés, people just solved problems and made their solutions freely available so others would not have to solve the sa

Before FOSS contributions looked good on résumés, people just solved problems and made their solutions freely available so others would not have to solve the same problem again. Once in a while you'd receive an email thanking you for that, more often than not, you'd not get any feedback at all. But that was OK, because it all was just about solving your problem, so the reward was there.