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rhizome on Nov 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing GNU Guix

What relation would you say ego has to scratching one's own itch?

michaelhoffman on Nov 24, 2012 [–]

I think the concepts are intertwined, if you are going to scratch your own itch and then release it for the rest of the world to scratch theirs.

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