… array of suggested reasons for beginning to contribute to open-source software development
… While this study identifies multiple motives for developers, like many others, it does not …

… did not significantly impact the reasons for contributing to OSS … is to investigate motivations
for contributing to free/open … that they “love to support someone and hear that solutions are …

… , we asked two open questions about motivation to contribute to … to people seeking help from
the community to realize their idea. … 13 Q17 The projects that I contribute to would not make …

… contribution to understanding the connections between individual members’ satisfaction with
management and their motivations to contribute to an OSS project… motivations alone do not …

… why software companies decide to adopt an Open Source based business model. This paper
contributes … Indeed, our data do not corroborate the hypothesis that Open Source is about …

… see in the commercial sector and do not themselves result in … Part I seek to better describe
and understand the motivations … their reasons for participating and contributing to "this" project. …

… motivations lead to above-average contribution levels; use-value motivations lead to
below-average contribution … intrinsic motivations do not significantly impact average contribution …

… We examine how the context of the open source project, and … , are related to the types of
motivations for contributing. A web-… , we did not choose a merely random subset of motivations. …

… , we first review existing literature on motivation to contribute to … 214 articles; we excluded
those that did not specifically deal … They realize that they can only achieve the internal goods …

… We discuss why collective invention normally does not … we first turn to the motives of
individual contributors and then turn to the reasons why by now many commercial firms participate …