For the record:
To date this year I have personally not received one cent worth of funding outside my single delegate position which amounts to about $29 per day at today's price. I still own every single one of those shares. Unfortunately, many of our other developers have needed to use that delegate pay to buy food.
All of the BTS earned from AGS/PTS have been carefully budgeted
by I3 to cover office costs, taxes, legal and accounting support with enough left over to give the core developers a small subsistence stipend each month averaging about 25% of what they could make elsewhere. That I3 stipend ends this month.
Cryptonomex has not accepted one penny of AGS/PTS funding and its expenses are covered by contributed sweat equity and the personal cash resources of its founders.
The cost to develop Graphene from scratch was less than the total sweat equity contributed by the team during this period. That means the net value flow for 2015 has been from the developers to the BitShares community, not the other way around.
By developing a product that they can sell to make a living, the developers bring new money into the ecosystem instead of relying on BitShares to bear all of the costs itself. BitShares gets free unrestricted use of these products without incurring most of the costs. This maximizes how many people we can have working to grow the ecosystem before the competition realizes what just hit them.