The guy in Nebraska maintaining one of key dependencies of your project thanklessly disagrees[1].
Well, we build stuff. we praise the knowledge. We were called geeks, hackers, etc. I can just compare software engineering with science like math, * engineering, physics.
Finance market as put by the other contributor, is just what we are not, and why Linux exists, why FOSS exists, why internet exists and services like github, trello, gmail exists (even though you want to scream at me, they are there for profit, they were all created with one goal in common: Collaborate openly with others). Egoist finance sharks aren't example of success, virtue and happy life, no matter what.
That's not the conclusion, unless you think that Class Warfare plays a role anywhere. I don't.
Lets not get carried away thinking we are specially noble.