Firstly, IRC is not a Product anyone is trying to sell, I am an IRC evangelist, advocating for an old but adequate technology that can be configured to add the

Firstly, IRC is not a Product anyone is trying to sell, I am an IRC evangelist, advocating for an old but adequate technology that can be configured to add the functions that people demand. IRC is not a Product, we are not salesmen, we are Enthusiast. This distinction is meaningful enough to merit pointing out. Do you think when I came to IRC, I didn't notice that the UX was actually rather ugly? It was readily apparent to me, I simply felt other things were more important. It wasn't the priority. The same is true of money, being able to take part in the gift economy of the hacker under world is of more value to me than money.