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Open source contribution is governed by a cost-benefit calculation rather than pure altruism: the volunteer's opportunity costs of forgone paid work must be offset by satisfaction, autonomy, peer recognition, skill acquisition, or downstream commercial opportunity.

Software developers perform a cost-benefit analysis when they decide to make an open source project contribution and throughout the respective project.

Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021), IV.3 Contributors’ Incentives, p. 31
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