One of the nice things when solving things on SO or IRC is that your work is available for many others to benefit from. Also, since it's public, I can expect to

One of the nice things when solving things on SO or IRC is that your work is available for many others to benefit from. Also, since it's public, I can expect to be corrected if I'm wrong. I'd see this as being the same as saying "Oh, you commit to open source projects, so you'd be happy to work on this private project for free!".