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My goal is to create a new programming language (sort of - in so far as I can talk about it). If monetized properly it would be worth billions. Questions is, should I incubate it myself, which will take longer, but be very financially rewarding, or work on it openly so that better minds than mine can make it better - but then no money for me... (except perhaps on the conference circuit!)

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Is this a joke, or what?

No. What part do you find funny/absurd?

You think you can make billions on a programming language? The only popular language that I can think of that isn't free is C#, so people are going to have options.

You talk about it as though it would be easy, but promotion, debugging, libraries, support, tutorials, HOLY SHIT it's not easy.

Well either I'm stupid and/or completely inexperienced, or I have a really good system. I take it you assumed the former. :-) Thank you for answering. I initially thought you were saying that the "go for money vs go for open source" question was a joke.

Just sounds like you have a bad case of "shit's easy" syndrome, as Yegge said when I was reading him yesterday.

Never said it was going to be easy. My question, in fact, was whether I should have it take longer by doing it myself, or open it up to the community to get it done faster.

Good luck...

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