I'm describing how I experienced it as a young developer at the time. It was a weird combination. Note in particular that a lot of people who jumped on the op

I'm describing how I experienced it as a young developer at the time. It was a weird combination. Note in particular that a lot of people who jumped on the open source bandwagon were people who wrote some free software but did NOT want to only write free software. And there was a lot of messaging around social norms for how projects worked, why open source made sense, and how to do well by it.