Prior to this, you had three choices: 1) Work on this opensource project for free 2) Work on my projects / startup 3) Work for somebody else with guaranteed

Prior to this, you had three choices: 1) Work on this opensource project for free 2) Work on my projects / startup 3) Work for somebody else with guaranteed salary of $100-150/hr. That lack of competitiveness doesn't seem to have stopped the success of open source.