Most of the open source devs from that generation did this as a hobby - many of us had to write dreary business software at our day jobs and loved UNIX, so crea

Most of the open source devs from that generation did this as a hobby - many of us had to write dreary business software at our day jobs and loved UNIX, so creating these tools was just fun. If it ever felt like a burden, you'd just step back and let someone else fill in or not and not worry about it.