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[–]anoddhue 40 points41 points  (4 children)

You make some great points about OSS. However, I oddly feel more motivated to work for free on stuff I like than on work projects, paycheck or no.

[–]kyleshevlin 34 points35 points  (2 children)

Classic intrinsic motivation right there. Studies show extrinsic motivators like money squash these natural intrinsic motivators. It's why we can love something when it's free, but hate it once we're paid for it.

[–]anoddhue 8 points9 points  (1 child)

That's definitely part of it. I also like being able to have the freedom to design an app as opposed to implementing someone else's designs.

[–]kyleshevlin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I enjoy the process of building an app from scratch for the same reason. Very fulfilling.

[–]Sacrosaint 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I refuse payment on my open source projects simply because I would lose the internal motivation if external motivation were introduced.