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“You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.”

Quote by Jamie Zawinski

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Jamie Zawinski is a renowned programmer known for his contributions to the open-source software community. He was involved in the early development of the Mozilla project in the 1990s and has continued to play a key role in various open-source projects since then. Zawinski is respected for his insights into software design and user experience, and his work has had a profound impact on the development of the internet. more

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