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Originally Posted by volt View Post
Also... This site, I mean "talk" specifically, isn't a volunteer community any more! It is maemo.org - the best resource for finding/downloading software for maemo products. The best resource for reading more about bugs, and definitively the best resource for fixing them. I doubt 5% of the people that use maemo.org and talk.maemo.org contribute in form of code.

It's a user community. May not be ment to be, and may not have started out as one, but now it is.
This is wrong.

I'll use RevdKathy as an example.. I hope she doesn't mind. She is not the type to contribute here in the "form of code" as you specify. However, she very much has helped a great many people. She does not get paid for it, that I'm aware, and she volunteers her time to assist others.

This entire community is made up of users, developers, and systems engineers or administrators. There are users who just ask questions, users who ask questions and help others, and users who do nothing but whine and complain.

All of these people receive nothing in return but whatever feeling they get from either whining to people .. or helping other people with problems. It's all volunteer work. We all volunteer to be here.. nobody is forced.
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