From my experience, which is purely anecdotal some open source programmers love giving back to the community. Some of them have motivation rooting from them le

From my experience, which is purely anecdotal some open source programmers love giving back to the community. Some of them have motivation rooting from them learning programming through open-source materials and feedback. Thus, wanting to give back to the community. Some people enjoy it, and can get benefits from it, such as gaining experience and reference for a person's portfolio. There have been some people who have been getting more job offers from open-source repositories than their online job application. Companies and programmers actually benefit from open source compared to closed-source, look at this dicussion [1] 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10574555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10574555