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Where did I ever say that I didn't do those things? I'm railing against the people that think that just because that's not what you do with every day and every

• angersock 15y ago
  "Where did I ever say that I didn't do those things?" meet "Just because I don't do these things, it does not mean I'm not a passionate programmer." I apologize if I incorrectly read your statement. As for passion: I mean, a lot of people are passionate about Jesus, and are passionate about the Chicago Bears, and are passionate about Jersey Shore. That doesn't mean that they're doing anything genuinely useful. The problem here is that it isn't enough to be passionate. You have to be doing Good--and if you look at my original wording, that was very much what I asked (albeit with poor capitalization): what Good are you? Again, if all you do is dump code into the maw of some proprietary system without writing about it or trying to share your knowledge or give away your tools, well, you haven't really helped anyone who isn't a user of your project, right?