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From: wilber@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <7606@alice.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 01:14:36 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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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 would a musician ever play for free?  To make the world a slightly
better place, maybe?