I’m all kinds of snob:  Bike snob, beer snob, whisky snob, shoe snob, pants snob (yes, pants), and much more.  I get called this by friends and family because nearly everything I own I’m particular about — I don’t just buy or wear stuff, I spend too much time researching, deeply assess a purchased object, [...]

Strangely, I’ve heard complaints that I’m focusing too much on the company and not enough on the project, and as a result the product is suffering. I find this strange because the project doesn’t pay my bills, feed my children, or buy my beer, the company does, and without those things, the project itself couldn’t exist. If, instead, I had taken some corporate sysadmin job, I’d have been spending maybe 5-10 hours a week on Puppet, instead of between 10 and 60 hours a week like I’ve been doing for the last three and a half years. This, I think, is the thing that people tend to forget about open source — yes, you can make money doing open source, but in doing so you almost always put yourself in conflict between making money and writing code.