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samdelagarza on April 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Call to All UI Designers: Do Not Play Skype’s Ga...

I'm not sure how it is for other engineering professions, but for software engineers we have a similar competition but instead of people willing to work for free it's people willing to work for peanuts out of India.

recoiledsnake on April 4, 2011 [–]

But what is peanuts to you is not peanuts to them. A different thing altogether from the point of this thread.

A better comparison for software engineers would be with interns working for free just to gain experience, freeware or FOSS.

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