Why hackers do what they do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free / Open Source Software Projects. This is an article presented in "Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, MIT Press 2005"
1. Why hackers do what they do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free / Open Source Software Projects Authors of this article: Karim R. Lakhani and Robert G. Wolf Praveen AP CS 286 Open Source Development
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Motivations to contribute to F/OSS Community Economic/Extrinsic based motivations Obligation/Community based motivations
8. Motivations Cluster 1 (%) Cluster 2 (%) Cluster 3 (%) Cluster 4 (%) Work need 91 8 12 28 Nonwork need 11 100 0 2 Intellectually stimulating 41 45 69 12 Improves skill 20 43 72 19 Work with team 17 16 28 19 Code should be open 12 22 42 64 Beat proprietary software 11 8 9 19 Community reputation 14 8 11 13 Professional status 25 6 22 18 Obligation from use 23 20 6 83 Paid for contribution 86 18 26 32 Total percentage of sample in each cluster 25 27 29 19