The main difference here is that the people who wrote Bootstrap and GWT were employees and they were PAID to work on those open source projects.
I'm not employed for working on OS software. I did less contract work (and thus now have less money) so that i could spend my time on preparing a solution which works well for me.
However, if i need to spend more time to make it work well for other people, that would be a stupid decision for me if it means that i lose more money.
But if you look above, i'm not set in stone about the OS / not-OS debate. I'm just wondering if people would be willing pay me for polishing it if the source is already available.
If not, this could very quickly turn into one of those highly ambitious, yet dead, open source projects as soon as i'm forced to work on other projects.
Bootstrap was done on off-hours (even though they were employed with twitter, if you read their history it was done outside of work and there was zero compensation)
I'm not employed for working on OS software. I did less contract work (and thus now have less money) so that i could spend my time on preparing a solution which works well for me.
However, if i need to spend more time to make it work well for other people, that would be a stupid decision for me if it means that i lose more money.
But if you look above, i'm not set in stone about the OS / not-OS debate. I'm just wondering if people would be willing pay me for polishing it if the source is already available.
If not, this could very quickly turn into one of those highly ambitious, yet dead, open source projects as soon as i'm forced to work on other projects.