>but the real knowledge and experience seems to be held back because it has to be regarded as a personal asset that might be used to turn a profit somewhere. Y

>but the real knowledge and experience seems to be held back because it has to be regarded as a personal asset that might be used to turn a profit somewhere. You need to move. If you primarily interact in person, you need to physically move. If you primarily interact over the internet, you need to change what forms you use. This is not how I see the world, especially the open-source world. From my point of view, the open-source tendency to help people for free seems to be bleeding over into the business world. Hell, my direct competitors help me out. And, of course, if you ask questions with the right attitude in the right places, there is a whole lot of free help to be had from the technical community, too.