For my Software Engineering class, we had to make a contribution to an open source project. Firefox is about as "legacy system" as you get without learning COB

For my Software Engineering class, we had to make a contribution to an open source project. Firefox is about as "legacy system" as you get without learning COBOL. I think the better question is why didn't this guy seek out the MULTIPLE opportunities to do "real" development (Open Source, _Good_ internships, etc? It's not as if we're all (College CS Majors) twiddling our thumbs and being useless all year long.