Comments on: Free Theater http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/132 Ian Lance Taylor Wed, 8 Oct 2008 05:59:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Free Theater by: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/132#comment-11567 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:23:28 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/132#comment-11567 Thanks for the notes. Yes: because we can. Thanks for the notes. Yes: because we can.

]]> Comment on Free Theater by: mudge http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/132#comment-11563 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:48:11 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/132#comment-11563 That's exactly the reason I'd think people would work on free software. Well said. That’s exactly the reason I’d think people would work on free software. Well said.

]]> Comment on Free Theater by: graydon http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/132#comment-11558 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:07:55 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/132#comment-11558 This reminds me of a conversation I had with Stefan long ago. I was trying to come up with a list in my head of all the "real" reasons I had seen for working on free sw (money, prestige, lowering costs of maintenance, etc). He said I was barking up the wrong tree: a major reason people do many things is *because they can*. Some time later I've come to believe this explanation too. There is joy to be had in exercising your own will, in turning something form an imagined possibility into an observed fact. That pleasure alone drives many things. This reminds me of a conversation I had with Stefan long ago. I was trying to come up with a list in my head of all the “real” reasons I had seen for working on free sw (money, prestige, lowering costs of maintenance, etc). He said I was barking up the wrong tree: a major reason people do many things is *because they can*.

Some time later I’ve come to believe this explanation too. There is joy to be had in exercising your own will, in turning something form an imagined possibility into an observed fact. That pleasure alone drives many things.

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