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> because doing FOSS is just a way for some people to enhance their careers. That's a very cynical view. Perhaps it is somewhat more true when it comes to the

• kazinator 3y ago
  I am positing that in fact self promotion is the motivation if we restrict ourselves to those decision makers at the top of the FOSS project who decide matters such as that the associated forum is going to be on Discord or Slack. They are not the only contributors to the actual project, of course, and not everyone is in their Discord or Slack because they like Discord or Slack. If you want to promote yourself as a developer by means of having your name on a lot of source code out there that people are using the only way that's going to happen is if it is open source. If that's all you care about, open source is just a means to that end. Your name is still in a bunch of code that people are using if the documentation happens to be in Microsoft Word. Open source has been promoted that way to a bunch of young people are starting out in software. "Oh don't have much industry experience? Show that you can code by starting a free software project or contributing to one. Anyone who's anyone has half a dozen or more Github repositories."