The question is not that, the question is how many people would be motivated to work on community-facing open-source projects then? Would you be motivated? "Sho

The question is not that, the question is how many people would be motivated to work on community-facing open-source projects then? Would you be motivated? "Show me your code". Otherwise, we're all carriers of petty human nature. And few people enjoy thoughts that for time you've torn off from your family, to help some random strangers (and user support is biggest time/effort sync for open-source project, and what makes them popular), risking family problems (re: Reiser and his FS), the eventual benefactor will be some company, making money on the popularity of your project.