Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262361AbTFXRtl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:49:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262368AbTFXRtl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:49:41 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:6404 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263062AbTFXRsS (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:48:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF89605.5050608@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:18:45 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Larry McVoy , Lawrence Walton , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] References: <20030619165916.GA14404@work.bitmover.com> <20030620001217.G6248@almesberger.net> <20030620120910.3f2cb001.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030620142436.GB14404@work.bitmover.com> <20030620143012.GC14404@work.bitmover.com> <87vfv0bxsb.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> <20030620153410.GC17563@work.bitmover.com> <20030620155003.GA2600@the-penguin.otak.com> <20030620160211.GF17563@work.bitmover.com> <20030620161331.GB3960@gtf.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1125 Lines: 24 It's funny -- all of this political talk going on about the effect of Open Source on commercial software. Well, for some people, writing open source software may have political motivations, but for an even greater number of people, writing open source software is something they do purely for personal enjoyment. In terms of motivation, this is no different from wood working or launching pumpkins. The great thing about the open source community that exists is that there is a huge body of work out there that you can borrow from in order to make getting your enjoyment easier. How many of you kernel developers out there hate coding but work on the Linux kernel just for the sake of beating Microsoft? For many of us, this is just a hobby. Yeah, it's awesome that other people can benefit from it and use it commercially, but it's just something we do for fun. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/