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Originally Posted by calvin-c
The real question is, how many people are like me & how many enjoy working hard for no reward?
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The mistake is in saying that there is no reward. As I said before, for some, the work (and the sharing of it)
is it's own reward.
As for how many people are willing to do that? Look to all the contributors to Wikipedia and other similar projects. Look to all the people who work on open source software (who aren't working for one of the johnny-come-lately commercial OSS developers) including a little thing called "Linux" created by just such people. Look at all the people running blogs that barely break even with ads (or even cost the site owner out of pocket) or forums with similar lack of profit. Look at the people who are bothering to do the cracking of DRM and the posting of media on-line. Look at the people doing the tedious work of
fansubs and
scanlations and
book translations even though not only do they not get money, they don't even get recognized by name.
How many people are willing to work on things that they are interested in for no money? Millions. Millions and millions.