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Why Do People Write Open Source Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-and-the-who dept.

M.Broil writes "Two interesting articles try to answer this question. One's at NewsForge, the other's at Cybernaut.com. The two writers reach conclusions that are almost exactly opposite. Which one is right? Or is it possible that different open source coders have different motivations? (That's what I think, anyway.)" I suspect as well that each developer has their own reason, ranging from ego to malcontent to benevolence.

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  1. FIRST POST@#!&$*@!#& by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fdhYFUEDY*(&ER@#*(UYDhsaojksaf

    fsdajflskdahf!!

    1. Re:FIRST POST@#!&$*@!#& by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Because the idea of using Unix software on a Fagintosh just makes them want to puke. Who wants to enrich a blue-jeaned, turtlenecked snack oil salesman when you can get and write much better stuff yourself for free?

  2. why ask why by 10am-bedtime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    flotsam and jetsam, the felled logs fill the river.
    huddled and starving, i watch the runoff, and shiver.
    industrious whores
    duplicitous mores
    happy and shouting, reduced the great forest to slivers.

    a few years more of this self-induced flood
    will drown all the tears and soil all the blood.
    mole-like ruminition
    soul-spiked extradition
    can no longer find fungus in the long-buried mud.

    but swamps never stand a chance against that meteor unexpected.
    and insects adapt, somehow, to the sulfurous brine detected.
    so i cannot but suppose
    that all will decompose
    and start again the cycle neither accepted nor rejected.

  3. Towelboy Kneel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, can anybody say why Sowboi Squeal is such a fat fucking oinking pig?

  4. OT: New worm by caluml · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is there a new worm on tcp/139 and tcp/445 ?

    I'm seeing loads of hits on this port on one of my boxes, but not on some others?

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    Get your own free personal location tracker
  5. They Love Faggotry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OSS fags want some man to man loving. They think GNU/buttsex is awesome.

  6. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by PetWolverine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OSS writes YOU!

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    I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
  7. RE: Your sig by derF024 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BSD is for people who love UNIX. Linux is for those who hate Microsoft.

    i've heard this from a lot of people who use BSD, which makes me wonder, shouldn't this be "Linux is for people who love UNIX, BSD is for those who hate Linux" ? In my experience it seems that people who use BSD do nothing but badmouth Linux, and then accuse linux users of doing nothing but badmouthing microsoft (which most linux users don't do.)