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Re: Why Do Developers Contribute to Open Source Projects?
08/30/13 11:47 AM
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> > Most of that is bullshit. The biggest reason for contributing to open source is to
> > level the playing field on things that aren't your core competency.
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> You missed the point. The article is about why developers contribute to open source
> software, not why businesses use open source software.
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> Not all open source software starts out with a business need. It usually starts out
> because someone thinks it would be cool to do a certain thing.
Look at the contributions to any big open source project, and look at who pays the maintainers. There are notable exceptions like MAME (although it doesn't strictly meet the definitions of OSI open source or FSF free software), but the vast majority of contributions to successful open source and free software actually come from big business.
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