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Ask HN: Why do you do open source?
We're currently working on my bachelor's thesis on the subject of why people give up their free time and work on open source projects. As a first step, we're collecting data on the motivations behind it.
There's just one question on the form, but please write as much as you have time to! Thank you!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MtXwd4kVF6kSuC4q_4rDaUksBRckLaCfgJGP6_JKSnY/viewform
- pytrin 14y agoThis old discussion on the Programmers StackExchange might be of interest - http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3233/why-do-programmers-write-closed-source-applications-and-then-make-them-free http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3233/why-do-p...
- S4M 14y agoOff topic, but yet another good discussion that was closed by some narrow minded moderator.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoReally? it is an interesting topic, for HN, but not for a Q&A site. (I actually sound like a Jeff Atwood snippet.)
- eru 14y agoIt's not always free time. At companies I worked for, we upstreamed open-source changes, because we wanted to shift the burden of maintenance. But I sometimes have similar motivations for contributing my changes to open source projects privately, too.
- drobilla 14y agoPainters paint, hackers hack