Always thought writing free code is devaluing yourself. So, the stories coming out how the most popular used libraries' dev/maintainer having no income, complaining afterwards doesn't surprise me.

Why do people devalue themselves? I have no idea.

@atheist "we are a community" thats why people develop free crap for the anticipation of fame and fortune until they wants to be paid, then its crickets....

I write programs because I'm bored.

Some singular other person might need to use it for their own dumb shit 10 years down the line (i've done this many times) so I throw some of the more polished stuff up on github under the least restrictive license possible.

The cycle repeats.