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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by nine_k on Sunday July 16, 2017 @08:59PM (#14784981)
Labor has negative utility. You have to compensate if you want people do labor.

In a business setting, you pay people.

In a hobby setting like that, people compensate by having fun.

Either approach is compatible with producing open-source software; I suspect most LOC of open-source projects are written by salaried contributors at large corporations.

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