AU>I fear lack of gratitude... will have consequences. And I assure you it won't. We're all here because no one will hire us for our programming skill, and no one will converse with us at parties.
For such a lot as we, the knowledge that anyone finds our unsalable works useful is reward enough. That anyone would reply to our opinions, no matter how disagreeable the reply, is all the acknowledgement we seek. If you are familiar with the Game of Thrones mythology, you may think of free software as the Wall upon which industry rejects find existential salvation and camaraderie amongst the Night's Watch.