Ask HN: Why do you do open source?

7 pointsby shintoistvor 13 Jahren5 comments

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

3 comments

drobillavor 13 Jahren

Painters paint, hackers hack

pytrinvor 13 Jahren

This old discussion on the Programmers StackExchange might be of interest - http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3233/why-do-p...

S4Mvor 13 Jahren

Off topic, but yet another good discussion that was closed by some narrow minded moderator.

lifeisstillgoodvor 13 Jahren

Really? it is an interesting topic, for HN, but not for a Q&A site. (I actually sound like a Jeff Atwood snippet.)

eruvor 13 Jahren

It'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.