His point is that if you end up like that it's because you don't recognize freedom when you see it. Its like that movie when the monkey does not go out of thee cage even if opened. Because its your project and you can do whatever you want. Its all in your head.
The again there is no reason any project has to go on forever. Some open source devs assume, often correctly, that money would ease the pain. In other cases just stoping open source work seems the logical choice. After all, there is no need for the world to witness your work.
PS: you do have a point that it's all in your head: in many ways open source work is addictive! Time for an Anonymous Open Source Developers group.
I think it has to do with the idea of work. Some people associate work with discomfort and feel guilty if they have fun so they transform their projects on uncomfortable work like things.
The beauty of it is that once you craate something and you share it you have already contributed something. I think that what you feel has more to do with your educaction. Like I said it is all in your head and you do that to yourself.
In some ways it has to do with the fact that people are educated to have a need for validation from an authority and several other ways of thinking that are completely counterproductive.
Validation from authority is not counterproductive. People who need zero external validation are at risk of psychotic behavior because they have no grounding.
Love, care and a nurturing social structure wihle developing as a child is what keeps a child healthy. What I meant was that self worth is tied with validation from authority. A sense of inadequacy is always fomented and all the other nonsense of the social experiments we call schools.And at some point you need to wake up to the fact that in a way its just a big theater. That's why you have theories like Rousseau's social contract. You need to answer to the question why are we doing this again?
