Software development is the process of pure creation. It shouldn't be debased with the language of resource scarcity. A weekend spent hacking on simd assembly optimizations is not a loss of labor resources. Why write code if not for the pleasure of it? No open source developer should ever apologize to his fans for delaying a release because some Apparatchik at Microsoft refused to sign his binary. Open source is not the service industry for schemers and penny-pinching money men. If you're too nice to those people then you'll just end up as cynical and burnt out as them. DRC should consider backpacking or possibly couchsurfing, then come back to libjpeg-turbo after a year with a clear mind.