Well, there’s sort of two paradigms here for me personally. For one, academic and research interests. For these, I get some kickback because people who use the

Well, there’s sort of two paradigms here for me personally. For one, academic and research interests. For these, I get some kickback because people who use the software cite it in their publications. So I spend some considerable time upkeeping and bug fixing these projects. I also write FOSS for my own purposes if I need something and existing solutions don’t really do it. Or they might do it but learning how to use them to do something simple is more work and upkeep than just writing it myself. Generally, I don’t really care if people use these projects or not but sill respond to bugs/features/etc if they will actually improve the project or if they don’t require much work from me.