[pawadu]

Reminds me of Terry Davis of TempleOS.

With that said, some people just don't work in a team but on their own they can do miracles. I wish we could start a small pateron or flattr fund for these guys and let them do whatever they want. While there would be no immediate ROI, the world be a much more interesting and fun place to live...

[ab5tract]

We used to have a thing called welfare that would have done a decent job of taking care of him.

[majewsky]

This could also be an argument for UBI.

[falcolas]

> While there would be no immediate ROI

Well, this particular author is the creator of libevent, so there's probably enough ROI already.