Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:18:45 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] |
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It's funny -- all of this political talk going on about the effect of Open Source on commercial software. Well, for some people, writing open source software may have political motivations, but for an even greater number of people, writing open source software is something they do purely for personal enjoyment. In terms of motivation, this is no different from wood working or launching pumpkins.
The great thing about the open source community that exists is that there is a huge body of work out there that you can borrow from in order to make getting your enjoyment easier.
How many of you kernel developers out there hate coding but work on the Linux kernel just for the sake of beating Microsoft?
For many of us, this is just a hobby. Yeah, it's awesome that other people can benefit from it and use it commercially, but it's just something we do for fun.
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