It also reduces the incentive to interact and communicate with other developers. Interoperability lowers the development costs and effort dramatically because you can just use and reuse each others' stuff. It also gives you an incentive to actively promote *other people's* products and actively seek out interaction with them. If money is no option, why bother? And why bother caring about interoperating with the wider network? The two or three biggest projects can just drive everything. And that's how you quickly recreate corporatism in FOSS. FOSS has its own sort of money printer.

We also seems to have much more appreciation of cost. Instead of renting a bigger remote server, we choose more efficient software to install or revamp our code. Instead of getting a snazzy new gaming notebook every year, we're digging old Linux machines out. We don't all have top-of-the-line Internet or mobile plans, so the stuff we built will work as well in the Bavarian backwoods as in Dallas, Texas. Instead of hiring a bunch of staff to do tedious labour, we automate it and ask for volunteers.