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This is why soulless corpos can never compete with talented people who are more than happy to work on amazing things for free just for the sheer satisfaction of achieving something actually useful, instead of lining shareholder pockets while pretending to look busy
In my experience, numerous people who love tackling hard problems for the sake of it go on to work at soulless corps. That's part of their success.
This guy Corps.
For the record, I wish more talented people were working on open source and doing volunteer work, I'm just stating the view from the ground here in Silicon Valley.