On Saturday, 17 March 2018 at 20:17:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
... A small group, drawn to do something for intrinsic reasons starts to create something. And they get no face because it seems completely unrealistic and in truth the odds are very much against success. But they create something excellent because they care about intrinsic reasons and not social factors. And some people start to take notice, but it's still more or less a fringe but interesting project. And it stays that way until the world changes, and changes in a way that looks obvious with hindsight but nobody really expected at the time. At that point what's important changes and the project starts to become popular. Then people more ambitiously than intrinsically motivated start to be drawn by what's now obvious and the project starts to be popular, and yet with that popularity comes a change in its nature and sometimes people think back to the old days. ...
Just like the Linux project - started by a Finnish guy.
