The point of releasing open source software for me is that I am contributing in my own small way to the state of human technological progress and to the massive

The point of releasing open source software for me is that I am contributing in my own small way to the state of human technological progress and to the massive canon of free software that I benefit from every day. Plus it's exhilarating to see other people become as excited about the code I've written as I was when I wrote it!