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by jit_hacker 4354 days ago
In fairness, there are a lot of great programmers who work on projects they really believe in and spend all of their available free time dedicated to them. Even if they're for the company/enterprise/startup they work for.
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Are they by some chance mostly male, under 35 and without families?
Yes, but so are most programmers that do open source work or side projects in their spare time.