[droopyEyelids]

What about the difference between 'programming' and 'hacking'?

No doubt everyone would keep hacking if they had unlimited money, after all, it's fun.

But programming? Tediously banging away on edge cases so a random consumer doesn't get frustrated? Polishing bullshit after the fun work is done so you have a 'product'? Maybe 3% of people enjoy the sheer grunt work involved with programming. Very few people would keep that up if they had unlimited money.

Much more likely, they'd do what we see notch doing right now. jump from interesting project to interesting project, discarding as they go along.