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by lain98 1997 days ago
individual open source contributor = free work
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I live a lot more safely in my country thanks to the "free work" done by volunteer firefighters ;).
Yes, but at least it is an activity that actually contributes to something and may provide a learning opportunity if you don't have a natural direction for your creativity.

I can think of an enormous corpus of things that does not contribute to anything in any way -- like watching sports ;)