That's exactly my point.
I work in a field that is really very important, but it's not interesting enough for you to work on purely for your own amusement. That's why there needs to be a financial incentive.
> "Esqueleto, a SQL DSL for Haskell"
The code specific to the business is proprietary.
Obviously.
You seem to be under the impression that unless people are coerced they'll only work on projects that entertain them in some way, like a child playing with bubbles.
I feel sorry for you that you have such a poor opinion of humanity. Personally, I think humans are curious, collaborative, and like to build things. Yes they like to build things they find interesting but interesting is a wide concept. If my Mom got cancer then I'd probably be more likely to work on cancer software.
I want to live in a world where people can voluntarily work together to build things based on shared interests, whatever those interests might be. A world where people aren't forced to submit to business owners like you.
I’m aware that people like to create things, but that depends on what those things are. Your offer to work on cancer software to help cure your mother’s hypothetical cancer only comes with intrinsic motivation. If we relied on that, we would not have made the progress in that field that we have made, and many more people would be dead.
My mother has cancer. I’m quite glad the scientists working on researching better treatments are actually getting paid.
> A world where people aren't forced to submit to business owners like you.
It’s curious that you have such contempt for entrepreneurs on a website themed around entrepreneurship and published by a venture capital firm.
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I get the feeling you’re no stranger to the words “anarchist”, “ancap”, and “communist”, so I’ll just leave this here:
And I do contribute to open source, but I prefer to work on stuff that isn’t connected to some company.