[preommr]

> he's talking about open source as a vehicle for developing personal wealth.

He made his point poorly, but ultimately it's about OSS projects making more money and not running on people's generosity until they get burnt out because they have to do the OSS work and their real job to pay the bills. That it's a single maintainer or a group of people that get rich is irrelevant, to the real issue and only got brough up because Matt was trying to be insulting, which as I said, was wrong.

> If at this point you think Matt is motivated by anything other than greed, you haven't been reading enough of what he's writing.

I think this is an instance of, in some aspects and theoretically, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

[lolinder]

> he has invented about half a trillion dollars worth of good ideas, most of the value has been captured by others.

You can't tell me with a straight face that this line is talking about paying the bills? "Most of the value has been captured by others"?

The man thinks about open source in terms of value captured rather than value contributed. He seriously thinks that success in open source is measured by the market cap of the attached for profit.

This is as transparent a window into Matt's psyche as I hope we'll ever get, and if you're still buying his lies after reading this I don't know what else to tell you.