They'd rather dump it in the bin than give it away.
I've seen people who had Amiga stuff not sell me their stuff but later dump them. (I wanted to buy 25 Phyton1 joysticks for 100$ in 2002 from a computer store in Turkey because the person working there said those were taking up space in his shop. A year later I asked again and he said he threw them to the trash.
A similar thing happened. I asked a local tv to sell me their Amiga4000 and two A1200's in Ateo tower with accelerators (I think they might have had 060's or worse yet BlizzardPPCs in them). They did not sell them although they were not being used anymore. Later I learned that they actually "destroyed" them.
When people spend a lot of money on something and later if that thing becomes useless, barely useful or not attracting much attention anymore, they either choose to not share it with anyone interested or they choose to destroy it if they no longer care.
It's a combination of two human traits that makes them act. The second strongest of these is called "hoarding" and the first one "revenge". they are hard coded to our genes from prehistoric times.
It's bad... Me? I'm not like that. I gave my BlizzardPPC to a friend for free when I got myself an A4000T just so that we could share the fun of discovering new things. He stopped using Amiga and also spoiled the BlizzardPPC and gave it back to me (I actually gifted it to him but he thought that I lended it to him)
About this subject:
When I make a song, I share it and would never ask any money for it. Because I do it for the music itself. Not for my self. After I make a song which I really like, I step away from the speakers and watch it and admire it. It may sound weird but that's true
It felt different at first but now it's like this is what everybody should do. After you become the medium to make something create itself and give you joy in doing so in return, it's not any different than your own self.
If I were to write a program, I would never hide the source code "even if I sell the program for a living". I would write the program for itself to make it better and feel proud. I'd then ask others to make it better if they wanted to.
After all that I would do is to order numbers together and I can not own the "ordering of numbers". People think inspiration and hard work is something they actually achieve. I know that none of them are inside us. They belong to a common source and we all share it and borrow from there. We can never own them, and we should never own them.
If you are actually doing it to earn money, it'll end up twisted. If you do it because you want to love it, you'll want to share it in the end if you are allowed to.
