[Echo Talon]

its nice that people make free software! :)

[ThePythonicCow]

I am paid good money to make free software (portions of the Linux kernel, and some related memory management libraries and utilities, in my case), because it's in my companies best interest.

I used to manage a group doing this software as proprietary software, as it is vital to our customers use of our systems. Now we've laid off most of group and I do it single handedly, along with one or two engineers from each of several other companies, cooperating on a common solution that is better than any of us could have done separately. Don't worry about those laid off, as they all have jobs doing things of particular interest to them.