As someone who has (comparatively) recently started an open-source java project https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw, I loved

As someone who has (comparatively) recently started an open-source java project https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw, I loved this post. I know the both the pleasure and desire to just quit. It's a bit frightening to think I could put 10 years into working on something without compensation when corporations benefit every day. And that's a good outcome: OptaPlanner is a success! In some ways it just doesn't matter because the pleasures of creating something are so strong. I can see why the author pushed on for so long. Congrats on your success and on an awesome project.