I quit a job to go work for a tool maker, because this sort of stuff matters to me.<p>What I didn&#x27;t get (and possibly still don&#x27;t) is that working for someone making tools, you make the tools they want to sell, not the tools you wanted to build. It was awful to be that close to a problem and be powerless to do much about it. That big sheet of plate glass became my home, with my nose permanently squished against it.<p>At this stage I&#x27;m pretty confident that this is why and when open source operates well.  There is basically nobody to stop you from trying something out, except yourself.