David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I'm primarily doing it for me and my own objectives.

Because...

As Adam Smith said, it's not for the benevolence of the butcher that we expect our daily meat.

It's for his self-interest.

And I actually find that to be a beautiful thought, that our comments increase in value when we all pursue our self-interest, certainly in the realm of open source.

This is also why I reject this notion that open source is in some sort of crisis, that there's a funding crisis, that we have to spend more.

No, we don't.

Open source has never been doing better.

Open source has never controlled more domains in software than it has right now.

There is no crisis.

There's a misconception from some people making open source and from a lot of people using open source that open source is primarily like commercial software, something you buy and something where you can then make demands as a customer and that the customer is always right.

Customer is not always right, not even in business, but certainly not in open source.

In open source, the customer as it is, is a receiver of gifts.

We are having a gift exchange.

I show up and give you my code.

If you like it, you can use it.

And if you have some code that fits in with where I'm going with this, I would love to get those gifts back.

And we can keep trading like that.

I give you more gifts.

You give me some of your gifts.