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The key word is marginal. Sadly, software tends to align against art as pushing boundaries is marginal for the return of investment.

I can provide an example. I'm writing a programming language, database, and platform to power board games. http://www.adama-lang.org/

Most of my personal investments are marginal to most businesses (or deeply incompatible). If was going to run this as an enterprise, then this would be a death sentence. However, my hope is that when I get this thing moving, then I can ship games quickly with exceptional and redefining reliability.

The only reason I can pursue this as an art is that I'm close to retirement.




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