Difference between revisions of "Free and open-source software/What is the motivation to contribute?"

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These are some reasons to contribute:

• They can find other people to work with them on their project, enable them to do things they couldn’t do alone, or significantly speed things up

• Companies can get help with the evolution of their software and increasing its robustness while making money from offering support packages

• Individuals are contributing to the wider the community that has freely offered software for them to build upon

• Satisfaction that other people can benefit from their efforts

• People can customise software to work exactly how they want

• The concept of 'copyleft' changes the way people think about to contributing to creative open projects

• Respect from creating a great software that becomes widely used