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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: `free' software
Message-ID: <9983@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 20:39:18 GMT
References: <14224@think.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <2377@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>]Question: What motivates a programmer to develop a large complex software
>]system, perhaps requiring many weeks (or even years) of development effort,
>]which is then posted for the world to use, for free?

(Why do I do crossword puzzles?)

In article <14224@think.UUCP> rlk@think.COM (Robert Krawitz) writes:
>Perhaps a desire to help others?

Or for my own reasons: the challenge of solving a puzzle; the desire
to be famous; and probably most important, a neurotic need to prove
myself :-) .
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