Perhaps we're not using our full potential..

A interesting document to read Toward an Understanding of the Motivation of Open Source Software Developers presented at ICSE2003.
7. Summary

In this paper, we have tried to create an understanding of what motivates people to participate in OSS development. We applied the LPP theory to understand how to form and sustain OSS communities that are essential to the success of OSS projects. We argued that learning is one of the major driving forces that motivate people to get involved in OSS communities. We discussed how our theory can inform software engineering researchers and OSS practitioners.

OSS is a very complicated phenomenon that is related to technology, human behaviors, economics, culture, and society. We do not claim that our theory clarifies all those complicated, intertwined relationships, but we do believe that it creates a better theoretical understanding of OSS from a new analytical angel, and provides practical guide to the management and development of OSS projects.
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IMHO you need inject optimist in your brain, so go exploring this will change your perspective.
 
A misunderstanding/misperception- Does such a word exist?- deserves to be accepted and then corrected.
There is always someone who will state that such-and-such is futile. E.g. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=36330
True innovation in any field cannot be driven by financial success or acceptance but by one's desire to improve a situation. You have to give a shit.
 
sossego said:
A misunderstanding/misperception- Does such a word exist?- deserves to be accepted and then corrected.
There is always someone who will state that such-and-such is futile. E.g. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=36330
True innovation in any field cannot be driven by financial success or acceptance but by one's desire to improve a situation. You have to give a shit.
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I'm agree with you in that point. FYIT, nowadays financial reasons don't be exploited as they should pay the new innovations and prefer do it wrong that to try to get it right (do they know?)

Clear that we can get what we deserve, but this shit comes to try to refuse, first to purposes, and then to applied theory. That never managed to stop true interests that control free software development. There is time to review and revise all: this is the way to go. It is better to ignore those who do not understand (no to believe).
 
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