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David Zaslavsky

@jsbarretto That's true, but I bet there are also a lot of people who don't feel similarly and thus are not reacting to this post. Obviously I can only guess at the real numbers, but I would imagine that among programmers (or writers, organizers, etc) who have worked on #opensource projects, only a small fraction of them have had a meaningful impact on the world through those contributions.

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Joshua Barretto

@diazona I guess that depends on your definition of 'meaningful'. An extreme definition might be "is on the critical path to a human being receiving sustenance or shelter" but I'm of the view that there are more indirect or immaterial ways for things to be meaningful.

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