What is your contribution to open source projects?

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Published on 2008-12-06T11:52:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 18:41 UTC
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I was always wondering about this seemingly utopic world of open source.

Assuming the vast majority of users here are professional software engineers which need some sort of income source, I assume most of us hold stable, money-making jobs.

So who are the key players in the open source community? Who are the people which devote their precious time to these projects? What is their benefit? Are the majority just people who see a bug, fix it, submit, and forget about the project? Or are they people constantly involved in the process of building the product?

How do you find yourself contributing to open source projects?

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