[Philosophical] People asking for a free Drupal site because they have an "idea"

I want to have a "philosophical" discussion about something that frustrates me.

Why do so many people post on Drupal.org, asking for "us developers" to build them a website because they have an "idea", but no budget or any other advantage to bring to the table. I think it is a disease of our modern society where people think like "I have a great idea, but no money, please build me a free site and I'll give you a good reference IF the work is done right." Absurd, as if developers never have good site ideas and "idea people" should make millions of free/cheap developer labor.

Something is wrong here. Let's call it the "Winklevoss-mentality" after the Winklevoss brothers who sued Facebook's Zuckerberg for stealing "their idea". This is a kind of mentality that actually inhibits innovation.

There's a few ways to to innovate:

- you have an idea -> learn the skills an d build it yourself;
- you have an idea -> hire a well-paid developer team;

In contrast to the Winklevoss mentality:

- we have an idea, then someone else built it-> go to court

To my honest opinion "ideas" have zero value. All ideas should be "open source".

Last month I was at New York Tech Meetup's afterparty drinking my drink, socially chatting around about web 2.0 ideas, and talking about my own startup 'ShopCircuit'. My ideas are free. I'm fine if others want to do something similar. Except, someone started to add his ideas to my idea, and the next day wrote me an eery email-followup starting with "My idea was...". This man is a lawyer. That is scary because I had thought of the exact same idea anyway, but now Mr. Lawyer appears to "appropriate" that part of MY IDEA to himself. This means, 5 years from now when I maybe have a succesful startup, Mr. Lawyer could feel the need to sue, "because he once told me the idea during a social event". I hate that kind of people and want to stay miles away from them. Most good ideas are "logical next steps" that anyone can think of given the appropriate frame of reference.

About the Winklevoss - here is my crucial problem with them: the developer SKILL to make Facebook SUCCESSFUL is entirely Zuckerberg's - the Winklevoss were not involved in that thought process in any way. They themselves posses no skill whatsoever to build a global community website. The Winklevoss hired another dev-team to build their crappy Harvard Community, which was by definition too elitist for the masses to care about. Whether you support Zuckerberg or not, his website skills made Facebook an early success, not the Winklevoss idea (which at them time was not original - there were hundreds other community sites around, like ehm, MYSPACE, Lycos Tripod etc, whatnot).

In 1993 my dad invented a MSN-like messaging system accross the early internet, on MS DOS. It took him 15 minutes to do it, but he didn't found a Microsoft company with 50K+ employees. Point being: it takes time, effort and SKILL to grow successful business. Just "an idea" doesn't cut it. The idea alone is worth nothing - anyone can think of the next Facebook, but only the SKILLED few can make it reality.

We need to move a away from such an idea-appropriation Winklevoss-world to a skill-centered world. A world where all ideas and human thoughts are free, and success is based on skill NOT legal threats. There's too many big-mouthed "idea people" who have no skill whatsoever. And I stay the hell away from them.

Thank you.