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.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?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.