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There's a lot of revelation from the author in this post, but I suspect not all of it intentional. Consider the claim: > I started out in open source like a l

by Jedd 8y ago

There's a lot of revelation from the author in this post, but I suspect not all of it intentional. Consider the claim: > I started out in open source like a lot of us: wanting to get my name on a commit and counting on "getting" something out of it. I can't find any good research on this area, but anecdata from a few decades dabbling in various free software communities suggest a) this isn't the primary motivation for most, and b) there's an inverse correlation between free software contributions and religiosity. (With the second, most of my experience has been in more secular societies - it may well be skewed differently through Asia and USA.)

indigochill 8y ago
>there's an inverse correlation between free software contributions and religiosity I'm curious where this comes from. Seems like there could be a lot of confounding factors. Anecdotally as well, I would speculate that religion among developers as a pool is smaller than it is in the general population (based on the sorts of personalities that tend to gravitate towards religion and those towards software development). However, of that portion I would be surprised if there was an actual inverse correlation.