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+<title>Motives For Writing Free Software
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<h2>Motives For Writing Free Software</h2>
+
+<p>Don't make the mistake of supposing that all software development
+has one simple motive. Here are some of the motives we know influence
+many people to write free software.
+</p>
+
+<dl>
+<dt>Fun</dt>
+
+<dd>For some people, often the best programmers,
+writing software is the greatest fun, especially when there is no boss
+to tell you what to do.<br />
+Nearly all free software developers share this motive.</dd>
+
+<dt>Political idealism</dt>
+
+<dd>The desire to build a world of
+freedom, and help computer users escape from the power of software
+developers.
+</dd>
+
+<dt>To be admired</dt>
+
+<dd>If you write a successful, useful
+free program, the users will admire you. That feels very good.
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Professional reputation</dt>
+
+<dd>If you write a successful,
+useful free program, that will suffice to show you are a good
+programmer.
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Community</dt>
+
+<dd>Being part of a community by collaborating with other people in
+public free software projects is a motive for many programmers.</dd>
+
+<dt>Education</dt>
+
+<dd>If you write free software, it is often
+an opportunity to dramatically improve both your technical
+and social skills; if you are a teacher, encouraging your
+students to take part in an existing free software project or
+organizing them into a free software project may
+provide an excellent opportunity for them.</dd>
+
+<dt>Gratitude</dt>
+
+<dd>If you have used the community's free
+programs for years, and it has been important to your work, you feel
+grateful and indebted to their developers. When you write a program
+that could be useful to many people, that is your chance to pay it
+forward.
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Hatred for Microsoft</dt>
+
+<dd>
+It is a mistake <a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html">to focus our
+criticism narrowly on Microsoft</a>. Indeed, Microsoft is evil, since
+it makes nonfree software. Even worse, it is
+often <a href="/philosophy/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html">
+malware</a> in various ways including
+<a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org">DRM</a>. However, many other
+companies do these things, and the nastiest enemy of our freedom
+nowadays is
+<a href="/philosophy/proprietary/malware-apple.html">Apple</a>.<br />
+
+Nonetheless, it is a fact that many people utterly despise Microsoft,
+and some contribute to free software based on that feeling.
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Money</dt>
+
+<dd>A considerable number of people are paid to
+develop free software or have built businesses around it.
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Wanting a better program to use</dt>
+
+<dd>People often work on improvements in programs they use, in order to
+make them more convenient. (Some commentators recognize no motive
+other than this, but their picture of human nature is too narrow.)
+</dd>
+
+</dl>
+
+<p>Human nature is complex, and it is quite common for a person to
+have multiple simultaneous motives for a single action.</p>
+
+<p>Each person is different, and there could be other motives that are
+missing from this list. If you know of other motives not listed here,
+please send email to
+<a href="mailto:campaigns@gnu.org">&lt;campaigns@gnu.org&gt;</a>. If
+we think the other motives are likely to influence many developers, we
+will add them to the list.</p>
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