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Hey, you can't blame me for asking, after all it is you I am asking. Have to be sure, can't rule out any type of idiocy.
Do you think the software he used would have been in place if people weren't paid to produce it?
I absolutely do, innovations, creations and development are not always purely driven by money. Some are, but most are born out of necessity.
People who create, create because it is in their nature to be creative.
People who innovate, innovate because it is in their nature to be innovative.
This wouldn't stop if the money in software dried up. I'm a computer network technician at heart, I do it because I love it, if I could do it after work as a hobby I would, and do. I wouldn't stop because I stopped getting paid.
Some of the best software and art ever developed was done so because the developer loved doing it. Look at true hackers, people who write "homebrew" software for Jailbroken iphones or games consoles. They don't get paid but they love it, so they do it. Would everyone give up their hobby if they knew there was no money in it?
