> It always amazes me that some people are willing to put in such hard work, alone, for open source. For many people this is about scratching an itch, their ow

> It always amazes me that some people are willing to put in such hard work, alone, for open source. For many people this is about scratching an itch, their own itch. They improve upon it not for the sake of "open source", but for the sake of making the very same tools they rely on to be better tools. This is how open-source used to work, and this is how it grew.