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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
Clearly, you're not a programmer.
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oh, I am. Your typical grease monkey, enterprise IT droid here. Not by choice, just facing the reality of a commoditized industry where you don't really quite write systems anymore, just assemble them. Or maintain legacy code. No creativity nor glamour involved. Which incidently is why so many programmers will do it for free in their spare time on open-source projects where they have more freedom to pursue their leisure at programming...
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And while there's lots of software that was driven by one person's vision, I don't see any reason why "art" has to be a solo thing anyways.
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simply try to merge together a bunch of conflicting views on how plot, style and characters should develop and you'll soon realize some kind of open-source art is not quite bearable, quickly derailing into entire mess of too heavy-handed bureaucratic committee...
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That's a joke, right? Lots of art is "useful" to many people, even if only to derive enjoyment for a period of time.
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the fact that you need to quote the term when applied to art speaks by itself. Art does not make you coffee, does not provide you shelter, does nothing useful to you. Crying or laughing at times is desirable, but not useful.
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And who's to say that all artists need to be full time artists? Surely some of those freeware programs floating around on the net took just as much time and effort to create as a novel, and they were done in the authors' free time.
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sure, one day in utopia land will be all fat served by little hovering robots while enjoying talking and sharing lame little bad poetry with our chubby facebook friends just next to us.
Until that marvelous period for a useless mankind doesn't come up, though, I'll be glad to make a living making less talented people happy in exchange for their money.
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Anyways, the thought that anyone actually practices all day long at the age of 5 because they expect to make a fortune selling CD's a couple of decades later is generally laughable.
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It's not expecting to become a millionaire, but to be able to get sustain from his art.
The problem with our times is low standards. We expect everything to be free because it all looks cheap enough, since we eat bad junk food while listening to bad played noise and reading some bad blog post...