is this happening to other people too?

[Kevin]

It's also not really only about giving things away, but also about receiving - not necessarily money (though it's possible to get paid for open-source work, I do), but feedback, advice, patches to improve the code so that it might be more useful for you, etc.

You're really only losing anything if you could make (more) money from not publishing the code. Hiding even the binaries on your hard disk won't do that, though, so that is the worst of all options.

[newanabe]

The primary mistake is that you assume you have some idea that is unique and first of the world.
In reality, such idea might have well studied, already working in progress by other, or waiting for chances and resources to do it just like you.

If you could otherwise invent such extraordinary idea, you are such a great genius that you should have opportunity everywhere.

It's the worst thing you could say to somebody: "If you was really a genius, you was to achieve your goals". It's like peeing on the grave of all those geniuses who died in misery in the history of this world. The real formula is: talent*opportunity*effort=success if opportunity is 0, you cant sequester Bill Gates and force it this way to hire you. Life is way more complex than that movie-based statement you just wrote. I bet this kid would become a real genius if grown in Canada: [url]http://www.quienlodiria.com/wp-content/uploads/niño-y-buitre.jpg[/url]

It's also not really only about giving things away, but also about receiving - not necessarily money (though it's possible to get paid for open-source work, I do), but feedback, advice, patches to improve the code so that it might be more useful for you, etc.

You're really only losing anything if you could make (more) money from not publishing the code. Hiding even the binaries on your hard disk won't do that, though, so that is the worst of all options.

Maybe you are right. I was afraid for my art to be stolen(not so much, cuz I draw a piece in few days, not big deal if stolen), but I published it and after 5 months online, nobody used it nowhere without my permission. Maybe if I desperate more, I would try sharing my coding too.
I just have not good experience with teams you know? Like child I begun to make toy cars with other kid and kids liked them and wanted them, but my colleague was doing nothing all the time, and I was making it all by myself. before 3 years I wanted to work with a guy, but he was all the time smoking weed and only wanted to hack stuff. It's really hard to make projects to work nowadays.
And using ASM is slowing me a lot. Today i was searching for hours for a mistake in the code and there was not way to find it. After that time I just got upset and had to go out for a while, to relax. Now i'm going to keep searching the damn error. At the other side, ASM needs concentration, I have often problems in family and I get upset and believe me, coding in ASM when you are nervous is near to impossible.
And what I learned last months trying to sell artwork online is that: even if I have the coolest project finished, a giant marketing effort would be needed to sell that project. I saw a lot of amazing drawers, near photorealistic artists fighting to sell their art on social networks. a bit sad, but talent is not enough.