So my conclusion after decades is this: you do the projects you like to do for your own benefit, and no one else’s. 100x this. If people only understood this r

So my conclusion after decades is this: you do the projects you like to do for your own benefit, and no one else’s. 100x this. If people only understood this right from day one, a lot of frustration would be saved. And with it all the expressed entitlement on which this frustration is built. You write some code because you need and want it, be it for your learning experience or to make a tool that you need or because to get paid for it. You open source something because you want to get the community engaged in it, to help you find or fix bugs or add features. Conflating these two is a recipe for frustration and the type of post that has prompted this article and the 500+ thread contributions, 90% of which demonstrate that they don't understand the difference either. Which is the real sad aspect here.