That is what I said too.
You can work for food. You can work so they'll reciprocate and work for you. That's the barter system. Otherwise, it's money ! If you have another form of compensation, I'd like to hear it ?
Happiness. Satisfaction. Pride. Not everything in this world is material gain. I programed long before I did so as a career, and will continue to do so long after. Money has nothing to do with it. I work in programming only because it pays well. If it didn't, I'd flip burgers for a living and still write free software in my off time.
You are describing exactly what I said previously (maybe it's my fault for trimming the posts of what I perceived to be redundant or irrelevant material)
FOSS developers mostly (if not all) have day jobs that pay the bills.
The Happiness, Satisfaction, Pride argument is all fine and dandy, and I support it wholeheartedly as an FOSS developer myself. But I can only do that while I have an income stream to pay the bills.
"Artists" need a form of compensation. They currently won't take food stamps, and don't want to work under a barter system. I don't want to deprive the world of their art (and it of mine) becoz we can't work out a better ideology to satisfy their hunger (be it just for food, or for material objects)
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