5 Aug
2010
5 Aug
'10
7:44 a.m.
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
I wrote:
I think you miss one important point here: to contribute to an OSS project one must be rather idealistic or even religious about it (yes, this includes me ;))
I didn't say "only" but pointed out that it's a major motiviation for individuell persons ("one") and this is what I experienced in >15 years of free software and OSS development.
Since I'm currently in a parsing mindset, I have to point out that "must" in English implies a necessary condition, even without adding "only" (actually, "one must only ..." would mean something quite different).
Furthermore, "one" *can* be understood to refer to any person or group, not only individual persons (like in German: "man"), and I also understood it this way.
Frank
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