The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave
There is something /very interesting/ there.   I think organizations work in spite of themselves because people like this are sometimes willing to stand up and fight to do something good/cool outside of their own self-interest.<p>how do you inspire that?  Was it just that apple had a large enough platform that it was worth it to continue developing it for the apple vs. releasing freeware/shareware/open source?  was it that apple just hired the right people, people who valued releasing something cool to the world over months of their own time?<p>It's hard for me to understand just 'cause I'm too mercenary.  In their case, I'd release the product freeware/open source/something and figure I'd benefit from the reputation boost.  it wouldn't occur to me to push it through as a skunkworks project where it was likely I wouldn't get any credit /or/ money.