This is insightful. > Open source always requires self-interest to fuel it. That self-interest doesn't necessarily have to be profit motivated either. As one

This is insightful. > Open source always requires self-interest to fuel it. That self-interest doesn't necessarily have to be profit motivated either. As one of the replies to your comment suggest, probably the majority of open source is maintained as a hobby by an invested/interested user. Open source does not have to have a profit motive to make sense. But likewise, a profit motive is also congruent with open source. It greases a lot of axles, to put it nicely. There's definitely some disparity in open source contributors in terms of money being made, almost like the income gap between wealth and poverty in general. I wish we could do better at fixing that and helping the "little guy" that is contributing their soul into a project. Still though, open source is driven by "selfish" means, in whatever form that takes.