Then don't do open source work. You can't be donating your work under a permissive license and then complain that someone else used it. Make up your mind.

Edit: also please gtfo with your condescending tone. Everyone needs to eat and most people are working class. Don't act like you are the only one who has a unique experience of hunger and thirst.

The initial post I was replying to was:

>I see very few people programming for fun, everyone seems to be looking for a monetization opportunity for every breath they take.

So yes, thinking that most developers are going to do it for “fun” after working 40 hours a week is kind of naive.

All I said was it used it happen more before and now it happens less. I never made any comments about what quantity does it. And it's not even about that. The culture has gone from earn to live to live to earn and not just in programming.

I’ve been in this field professionally for over 25 years. There has never been a time where people weren’t interested in making the most money possible given their skillset and opportunity.

Or are you saying in some distant past that people did it for the love? I was a junior in high school when Linux was introduced and I was on Usenet by 1993 in the comp.lang.* groups.

The “culture” hasn’t changed - just the opportunities.

When linux was introduced in that group majority of the posts weren't asking how to make money from it. That's the difference. Try hanging out in langchain and openAI discords. You will see the difference.