You say that coding is everything, but you are clearly
not seeing
that people are not likely to code something unless they have reason
to believe that the outcome will be welcome.
This reminds me of a great quote:
"People bitch at me, Mark, and others for 'not working
hard enough' on Project Foo. I work on it in _my_ time,
and people telling me what I ought to be doing with
_my_ time usually causes me to go do something else
entirely."
And of course, the famous HOWTO:
"HOWTO Pay for Free Software"
http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/HOWTO/Free/
David A. Desrosiers
desrod(a)gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com