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It's just a job... but is it?

Here is where altruism would have a large role to play in the software industry. There are many such examples as stated above. Two camps may be delineated in the production of software: those who do it for a job, and those who do it for fun. As in other fields of work, those people who do it for fun, oft times do a better job at it.



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