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Because there's only two levels 1. Passionate that produces amazing software 2. Completely don't care


In a nut shell, yes, but I'd modify the groupings: 1) Passionate people that rally others, 2) everyone else.

Whether you utterly don't care, midly care but not enough to do anything, or care enough to do something only when someone goes first, it is the passionate people that preach to the choir because that's how you get them to sing.


In most areas there arent enough passionate people to get something major done, as most OSS maintainers found out, thry rarely get a serious commit or contribution




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