I think this is true of a lot of projects. Making nice tools to work with serves a more fundamental need than money does. You could say that money is just a mea

I think this is true of a lot of projects. Making nice tools to work with serves a more fundamental need than money does. You could say that money is just a means to get nice tools. Open source software can be duplicated or amended by anyone as much as they want so theft or shortages of it isn't an issue.