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Nice article
What this article is missing is a clear line between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Nadia Eghbal's book 'Working in Public' did a great job at explaining open source project management in these terms. Developers are intrinsically motivated to create software because it's a creative process. However, maintenance, like monitoring dependencies and security vulnerabilities, or writing unit tests, are tedious and do not provide intrinsic motivation. This is where extrinsic motivation (like getting paid) is important and necessary. We can see this play out in the BCH space. Lots of projects are started with great fan fair, but then die out due to lack of maintenance.
It turns out that developers actually react quite well to other forms of motivation than money as well. Typically even better. As the saying in tech goes: the salary should be such so we stop talking about salary. The "tedius" parts are where their product moves from having people ignore your product to them becoming fans. Fans appreciate your work, which is a direct (extrinsic) motivation. Money does not have to be involved for this to work. The community feeling (if you were to start working with other devs, for instance) of building something together is another essential ingredient to get people the respect that their work deserves. Both extrinsic, both without the need for money to be involved. I didn't name intrinsic and extrinsic specifically, indeed, but most people don't use those terms. If you take another look at the article you'll find I did touch upon them quite directly, though. There are a lot of open source, freedom projects out there that are made by passionate people and they follow this quite well. Krita is my favourite example here. Bitcoin Cash projects can use all that experience and add to it as the post explains.
Great piece. Just goes to show the developer community is stronger when they come together through a shared vision as opposed to being shoved into a cubicle by external forces
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