Steve, with your limited time available for writing C# Aurora I had a question. If someone paid you to develop Aurora (As you saw fit) as a full time job with a decent enough salary would you do it? Do you work on computers, with code of some sort for your day job?
I'm director of business analytics at PokerStars, which is a large online gaming company. It's a reasonably well-paid job that I really enjoy. Because we are based on an island most of the staff live relatively close together, so there is also a great social life. If I worked full-time on Aurora, I can see several issues:
1) I might get bored if that was my full-time job. I appreciate the time that I do get to spend on Aurora, but that appreciation might disappear with unlimited time.
2) I have had three previous hobbies that turned into jobs and they were never as much fun once they become my day job. That is why I haven't tried to make money from Aurora, to avoid the same situation.
3) It would be a fairly solitary existence, apart from my family. In my current job (almost 7 years now), it is all about personal interactions (well, with some analytics thrown in
), and I would miss that.