Code is a tool. Often you build a tool to complete a task. Open Sourcing the tools lets others do their tasks. But you run the risk of becoming an unpaid to

Code is a tool. Often you build a tool to complete a task. Open Sourcing the tools lets others do their tasks. But you run the risk of becoming an unpaid toolmaker and unpaid tool maintainer, and getting none of your own tasks done. In a way, github's biggest opensource committers are in a way the 'gig economy' workers of the tech world. Paid in just the occasional few bucks of donation for work which would otherwise be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars done with a salary.