[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“One of the problems people who wear ties have with open source
is the question of why anyone bothers to write it. Linus Torvalds
famously said that if ten people collaborate on a project for an
hour, everyone gets back nine times more work than they put in–a
return on investment that should satisfy the most avaricious suit.
There’s more to it than that, though: the very human desire to
create something of worth and be credited with it is highly
motivating, and open source software is much better at this than
work hidden behind the proprietary shield…”