This has long seemed like a mug's game to me, and all the talk of "passion" and "community" and so forth strikes me as unconvincing. It's such a scam, you work

This has long seemed like a mug's game to me, and all the talk of "passion" and "community" and so forth strikes me as unconvincing. It's such a scam, you work hard on something that tons of companies use for free. If you're lucky, you get a couple bucks in donations. Then, if you decide that you're wasting your life doing this, people yell at you because you transferred the project to the wrong person. And don't you dare mess with the license, you evil greedy developer! (Greed is ok for the companies that use your stuff, but not ok for the people whose efforts they build on top of.) The whole time people are giving you shit for not solving their particular issue, not to mention the crappy things people say about the `standard` project itself. It's signing up to be treated like a donkey, branded as something virtuous and righteous. No thanks. But somehow feross is the asshole. What a world.