Many thanks for your time

[Joe Warner]

On Friday 22 April 2005 05:18 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-04-21 15:49, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> 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

Thanks Giorgos, ..that answers a lot of the questions I had when I posted my 
"Why do you do it?" msg a while back.

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Joe Warner <rootman> BSD/Computer Addict
Greater Utah BSD User Group
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