December 2009 - STORMY PETERS

Can free software transition to the web services world?

Etherpad is being released as open source software because the team is moving onto Google Wave. As an open source web hosted project, without a company behind it, it is unlikely to succeed. Back when I used to talk about the business reasons for open sourcing code, “end-of-life” was always one of my first examples. […]

Unexpected rewards are better than expected rewards

9 Comments / Would you do it again for free? / Stormy

Since I’ve started talking about Would you do it again for free?, I’ve been very interested in any studies that show how extrinsic rewards change intrinsic rewards. The theory is that external rewards can replace your internal values to the point that you’ll no longer do what you valued without external payment or reward of

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