Uh, I think you are reiterating my point. Because people just think that open source is maintained "by someone else", it becomes a tragedy of the commons issue.

Uh, I think you are reiterating my point. Because people just think that open source is maintained "by someone else", it becomes a tragedy of the commons issue. If we stop perpetuating the idea that it's something different than regular software that anyone can modify, then maybe we can get more contributions.