Originally Posted by olighak

Weren´t you talking about FOSS programmers being the equivalent of volunteers earlier in this thread? Some volunteers are obsessed with what they volunteers and are better than many professionals in the trade, but instead lack the time to do the volunteering. I´m better as a mechanic than some of the one´s I´ve taken my old Volvo´s to, but that still doesn´t mean I want to open up a Reparation and Restoration shop on the side, I just can´t do it proper justice as something else takes priority.

With FOSS I am just as screwed, as with commercial apps, if the original programmer stops developing it, no one else picks it up and I either don´t have the time or can´t program. Am I any better off with the amateur in that case than the commercial programmer?