Lazycoder

Live to code vs. coding for a living

.NET Application Foundation?…….
I’ve often found that you can distinguish between the people that love to write code vs. the people that write code just for a living by their attitude towards Open Source developers. There is some room for overlap, lots of people lucky enough to get paid for doing what they love but don’t want to do a lot of work for free and people who can’t code their way out of a b-tree doing lots of open source

Often the ones who view programming as only a career and a way to make money often say things like “Open Source? No thanks I want to get PAID for my work.”

People that love to code often say things like “I wish I had more time, maybe I could release this as Open Source and someone else could work on it too?” or “I think someone else might need this, I’ll put it up for download.”

People that code for a living say things like “I would use that but it doesn’t do x, y, or z.”

People that love to code say “Here’s how you can implement x, y, and z.”

People that code for a living say things like “That’s too buggy. I can’t use that.”

People that love to code say things like “Hey I noticed a bug, try this.” or “Here’s the fix.”

People who code for a living say things like “What’s the business model? Where does the revenue come from?”

People that love to code say things like “Wow, that’s cool. Can I use that?”

Can you think of any others?