Comment Optimism? (Score 1) 359
I wish I could share you optimism, but it only takes a few bad apples to spoil the bunch. One coder is going to start thinking "Well, damn, I might as well make some money off of this" and he'll go do it. Then all his coder buddies see it and follow suit. Soon, the people who try to "hold out" against the commercialization of the whole deal are a minority.
It's called selling out, and with the money at stake ranking in the billions, I doubt that anyone would, when it comes down to it, say they'd rather do what they do for the love of it, if they can also make enough money to put little Suzy through college.
This is merely history repeating itself. Don't worry, the happy little unknown will come back some day. (Just look at music... first albums rock, the second always sucks) Look on the bright side, at least it wasn't a one-hit wonder.
It's called selling out, and with the money at stake ranking in the billions, I doubt that anyone would, when it comes down to it, say they'd rather do what they do for the love of it, if they can also make enough money to put little Suzy through college.
This is merely history repeating itself. Don't worry, the happy little unknown will come back some day. (Just look at music... first albums rock, the second always sucks) Look on the bright side, at least it wasn't a one-hit wonder.
