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If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career path,
you're doing something wrong." It's not that Linux creator Linus
Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts (he
doesn't), but rather that they should be properly motivated. Call it
software with a soul, if you like. Only the truly passionate need apply.
That's the message Torvalds and several other open-source luminaries
have for the next generation of programmers. "A career path is not a
motivation," Torvalds said during Tuesday's Open Source Development
Lab's enterprise Linux summit. A reluctant visionary, (he blushed a
shade of bright red during an intro that mentioned his inclusion in
/Time Magazine's/ list of most influential people) Torvalds is
nonetheless passionate about his life's work, an open-source operating
system that has blossomed into a major force in the technology world.
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