[gitgud]

> loners with unreasonable passion and knowledge about a specific niche. Now it's a codeword for capitalist cattle.

Reminds of open-source contributors doing it for the passion. People never made open-source software to make money back in the day...

[pen2l]

Just curious: these... people, who made open-source not for money but for something else, what was typically their means for livelihood? They were software engineers in their day jobs?

Man, some discipline these guys had, to juggle it all so well.