It may be paying for minimal (including the SDK), but able to do a good enough job, ultra stable in time reference software/network protocol/file format maintai

It may be paying for minimal (including the SDK), but able to do a good enough job, ultra stable in time reference software/network protocol/file format maintainance. It excludes nearly all software out there (even open source, and closed source are de-facto excluded), because most "developers" are only a bunch of scammers heavy on planned obsolescence. That includes software "maintained" by the academic sector, like your have with MIT media labs and the nice "donations" from bill gates (to probably steer it the way he wanted, I would not be surprised this is not alien to c++ in gcc... one of the biggest mistakes in open source software), that revealed in the epstein files. To say the least, it is far from ez. If you are an _honest_ dev, you know it is extrutiatingly hard to justify a permanent income.