You need team of about 500 professional job-hopping money-driven 9-5 engineers

Gotta love the reply:

> @jeroenooms you know, when I read stuff like this I think about the fact that last year was the first year of my life I was able to afford specialist medical care, in a year where I got a life-threatening illness. One of my old bosses called me a job-hopping moron who only cared about money and was selfish for having 9-5 boundaries. OSS has a long way to go if the OSS proposition for quality work relies on stereotype essentialism and assumptions that infinite passion will build everything

For all of the snark of the original post, it's well met here. Nobody should feel bad about being able to live a decent life.

Unless he's talking about the same project in both cases, it's a meaningless comparison. Can you take that OSS dev and put them in the consulting firm and have them replace everyone else in terms of productivity? I worked in an enterprise software company with a couple of people who founded some very well known and widely adopted OSS components, and while they were great by all accounts, they weren't 500x developers, or indeed even 10x. The difference is that with the OSS projects, they could do whatever they liked.