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Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

got laid off but were relatively wealthy enough to not have massive pressure to immediately start grinding a 9-5 again

Or they were grinding 996 to get something noteworthy and impressive on thier cv so they could get another good job and quit whatever it was they had to pick up to pay the bills in the mean time...