> As for why he doesn't commercialize the website and collect some money, this question was also asked by us. You don't get into open source development for th

> As for why he doesn't commercialize the website and collect some money, this question was also asked by us. You don't get into open source development for the big bucks. It's sort of like asking someone who starts a soup kitchen why they don't open a restaurant. I think it's worth noting how open source development spurs technical innovation in a way commercial development does not. If a company develops a proprietary technology, almost nobody will get access to the source or datasets, and so it can't then be reused and built upon to advance the state of the art. If it's open source, everyone can build on it and improve things. Sort of like how science needs to be public in order to develop more science. But just as we need large investments to push science further, we should also have large investments in open source. We need to make access to these 50-GPU clusters easier for open source research, so a lone developer doesn't have to built it himself. Some meager funding for the actual development would be nice too... How many OSS researchers could we fund at $35K per?