> About 80% of that time is debugging The same is true for most other people. In the Free Software community the efforts of an individual that is willing to co

> About 80% of that time is debugging The same is true for most other people. In the Free Software community the efforts of an individual that is willing to contribute back to the community would mean that the (current) issue would be forever solved. I understand that you enjoyed that time, I did too. We're both on "Hacker" News after all. But the utility of that time multiplied by the scale of the community means that less effort went back to community contributions.