From: Jeff Shultz 

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:21:31 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
>news:3df92c3b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> And people who are programming open source are doing it because they
>> like it - not because they've got some sort of KLOC requirement hanging
>> over them. Do you think a happy programmer is likely to be a better
>> programmer?
>
>You mean like Joe fixing his memory stick driver or whatever it was?
>
Not necessarily - but like someone who decides that they need to write a
device driver - and can build on the work of all the other people who have
written related device drivers.

Or the guy who looks through the source code to a program he's found
useful, and discovers that he can improve it - sends the improvements off
to the original author.... and discovers he's a collaborator.

Linus didn't shanghai all those kernel coders into it after all.

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