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pjmlp 63 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Devtools must be open source

You don't need $600 dewalt drills to open holes for most carpenter's.

Ah, but we used to pay, and many of us still do, because as programmers, some of us also like to earn salaries, we don't get to buy groceries with pull requests.

wredcoll 62 days ago [–]

What exactly is the argument here? All programmers should buy programming tools because otherwise programmers will starve to death?

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