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With all due respect we're not talking about kids across the street here. We're all professional developers trying to contribute something. I'm perfectly fine with people making money especially those who have contributed so much, but is it possible to continue to contribute like we always did without looking like some kid across the street?

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> With all due respect we're not talking about kids across the street here.

That was the only analogy I could think of when comparing guitarists. I didn't mean to equate both you and myself to famous programmers as children, but that's the best I could do in 5 min. My point was just to show that Yehuda isn't some average unknown panhandling for money. He's well known and he's already given a lot to the community and not to just Ruby.

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