On 2005-04-21 15:49, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I'll ever understand how a professional coder could come > home from work and code for a volunteer project. (I know that when I > get home from a day of carpentry the last thing I want to do is work > on my own house.:)
I believe it's easily explained by the tendency of business-related source to be "hacked in a rush" to match deadlines combined with the need of programmers to work with software they like and can be proud for. A very good article I've recently read that attempts to answer exactly this sort of question was: http://www.openxtra.co.uk/articles/why-do-people-write-open-source-software.php _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
