>fame and applause >Maybe they are rightfully so, since they paid with social capital I'm sorry, but I think you're exaggerating a lot here about the worth of

>fame and applause >Maybe they are rightfully so, since they paid with social capital I'm sorry, but I think you're exaggerating a lot here about the worth of "fame" in something as niche as writing open source software. It's like when people try to pay artists with "exposure" -- flashy, but worthless in every imaginable way. Case in point: The creator of Homebrew who famously failed to get a job at Google despite having all "street cred" imaginable.