> Of course it's not your fault that you have no respect for software
> developers, it's their own making. The problem with is that academics have
> given away too much for too long,

Also because a lot of computer programmers do it only as a hobby, and as 
such they have another source of income so don't mind if they don't get paid 
for their hobby work.  But I wonder why it is different for other hobbies 
like photography, you would never find some unknown person to do your 
wedding for free.  But people are happy to spend *years* writing code and 
then give it away for free to unknown people.  Maybe it says more about the 
sort of people who program as a hobby.

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