Re: Developers/Free Software/Open Source

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>>There are two basic ways to approach art/writing/music/programming:
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>>1 - Scratch my own itch
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>>2 - Find a need and fill it
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>   1 and 2 are not mutually exclusive.
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True. If your passion is running a used car lot, and you acquire the 
skills to do it well, you will be happy and prosperous. I havea  
neighbor who owns a small used car lot and loves his work. He enjoys 
sales, he's a car fanatic, and he'd rather work 80 hours/week in his own 
business than 40 hours for someone else. We should all be in Tony's 
position!

The rest of us must either find needs our itch-scratching will fill or 
develop a passion for filling some sort of need.

- Robin