[funyug]

Because they dont involve money but bitcoin does.

[x1798DE]

Almost the entire payment infrastructure of the internet relies on one of the libraries / standards mentioned in the post above, so it would be a stretch to say they don't involve money.

[funyug]

I understand but they are not directly involved in the process. They provide value to other systems rather than carrying the value themselves.

[lightbyte]

That's a terrible comparison, my money doesn't get locked into a specific SSL library when I use one for the first time.