From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 24 7:47:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE6637B835 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (rh2.bfm.org [216.127.220.195]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:48:41 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000324094743.00a5f220@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:47:43 -0600 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" In-Reply-To: References: <20000323232028H.jhix@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:33 24-03-2000 -0500, Pat Lynch wrote: >ESR, Jordan, and I were at an Open Source roundtable in New York City >about a year ago, and the ego thing was brought up. Lets face it, alot of >us are motivated by ego, in fact the majority of us are. ^^^^ Fact? Do you have any statistics from an objective research study to support this claim? Certainly not all of us are motivated by ego. I generally write software because I need to do something, and I cannot find software that does it the way I need it done, or occasionally because I cannot afford such software. I simply release that software because I assume that if I need it, someone else may need it as well. As long as it's written, and as long as I do not plan to sell it, I may as well give it away. Others may be profit motivated: Releasing free software helps build their portfolio, so they can find a decent paying job. Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message