Many thanks for your time

[Giorgos Keramidas]

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