I dunno about that. I'm regularly _flabbergasted_ by what hackers will do just for fun, and how they run circles around an industry veteran like me.
Look at the modding scene for games (an extreme example being a 30 year old obscure German game called "Gothic" where the modding community is still building amazing stuff on top of this ancient piece of software). Look at 3D printing, or people dabbling with Arduinos and Raspberry Pis. Look at the Emacs community and all the packages people build with a level of attention to detail you rarely find in commercial software.
Those people are all doing it for fun. That's my dictionary definition of "extremely talented and motivated people". The world is big, and I figure those kinds of people would happily work in a place where they can put their talents to use full time for a livable wage. Provided they don't feel like they got the short end of the stick compared to their colleagues/managers, financially or otherwise, maybe.
Probably not in the average tech company bureaucracy with all the overhead, micro management, politics and user-hostile antics though.
Look at the modding scene for games (an extreme example being a 30 year old obscure German game called "Gothic" where the modding community is still building amazing stuff on top of this ancient piece of software). Look at 3D printing, or people dabbling with Arduinos and Raspberry Pis. Look at the Emacs community and all the packages people build with a level of attention to detail you rarely find in commercial software.
Those people are all doing it for fun. That's my dictionary definition of "extremely talented and motivated people". The world is big, and I figure those kinds of people would happily work in a place where they can put their talents to use full time for a livable wage. Provided they don't feel like they got the short end of the stick compared to their colleagues/managers, financially or otherwise, maybe.
Probably not in the average tech company bureaucracy with all the overhead, micro management, politics and user-hostile antics though.