What a strange, skewed survey. It seems to pre-suppose a single reason you'd participate in Open Source, then asks a bunch of questions so that you can answer

What a strange, skewed survey. It seems to pre-suppose a single reason you'd participate in Open Source, then asks a bunch of questions so that you can answer "yes, that's right". None of those questions have an answer I can check that applies to me. As an example, take the Internationalization library for ASP.NET that I released as Open Source last year. Sure, it's nice to give back to the community and all that, but there's a business reason there as well. It's hosted on one of my product domains, so having developers link to the project has measurable SEO benefits. Weighing that benefit against the negligible competitive advantage of keeping it in-house was the main part of the decision, along with the fact that it was comparably easy to break out as a reusable piece. "Goodwill" might have weighed slightly, but "Esteem", "Self-Actualization" and all the other tick marks from that survey were never part of the equation. This isn't limited to small projects, either. Pick any big-name OS project, and chances are you'll find a big corporation or two behind it, promoting (and funding) it to further their own business need.