[toomuchtodo]

> For engineers and artists, it's not really an issue. We want to see our best work appreciated, primarily.

I want to be paid first. Everything else comes second. That doesn't not make me an engineer. It makes me a wise engineer. Money buys options and freedom. Prestige and other abstract concepts are used to steal your time and value.

[51lver]

Right, but you aren't going to raise hell if someone makes more money on your work than you did. That's not the attitude of a craftsman, but business folks think in terms of lost potential revenue and junk like that and thus are not above such things.

[Dylan16807]

It's okay if they make 'more' money, but whenever an entity makes giant piles of money I wish there was a small mandatory royalty to the original creators.