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I found an interesting article on the effect rewarding people has on their creativity: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html. Through various experiments, the author managed to convince me that people tend to be more creative when they see the creative work itself as a motivator instead of some reward (i.e. money) as a motivator. Perhaps it would be interesting to note how many open source programmers view coding as a hobby which they enjoy simply for the sake of coding. In addition, there are still ways to get rewards for open source programming (the ability to "show off" to others in the open-source community and gain a sense of self-worth, the "support-sale" product model, using open-source to advertise your abilities as a contractor). | I found an interesting article on the effect rewarding people has on their creativity: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html. Through various experiments, the author managed to convince me that people tend to be more creative when they see the creative work itself as a motivator instead of some reward (i.e. money) as a motivator. Perhaps it would be interesting to note how many open source programmers view coding as a hobby which they enjoy simply for the sake of coding. In addition, there are still ways to get rewards for open source programming (the ability to "show off" to others in the open-source community and gain a sense of self-worth, the "support-sale" product model, using open-source to advertise your abilities as a contractor). | ||
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| + | There are many interesting articles available regarding the pros and cons of the open source software business model. I would like to work in a group to do our policy brief on some issue regarding open source software. Please let me know if you would like to work together. | ||
Revision as of 17:00, 21 October 2004
Jeff West I found an interesting article on the effect rewarding people has on their creativity: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html. Through various experiments, the author managed to convince me that people tend to be more creative when they see the creative work itself as a motivator instead of some reward (i.e. money) as a motivator. Perhaps it would be interesting to note how many open source programmers view coding as a hobby which they enjoy simply for the sake of coding. In addition, there are still ways to get rewards for open source programming (the ability to "show off" to others in the open-source community and gain a sense of self-worth, the "support-sale" product model, using open-source to advertise your abilities as a contractor).
Open Source Project
There are many interesting articles available regarding the pros and cons of the open source software business model. I would like to work in a group to do our policy brief on some issue regarding open source software. Please let me know if you would like to work together.
