[yason]

Social pressure exists regardless of the source code distribution model and whether it's free or paid work.

People can always succumb to social pressure. Open source developers do suffer from that too but taking up on social pressure is not inherently relevant to the project being open source.

[buboard]

i m not talking about real life social pressure, but github turns software social, with all the anxieties that come with it. and people do want it to reflect well on their profile/CV. In my experience, the expectations from other people in the community is a big motivator.

[TeMPOraL]

> and people do want it to reflect well on their profile/CV.

Ah, there you have it. It's not related to Open Source.

The problems so oft complained about usually show up when what you really want is to be popular. Popularity takes more work, and different kind of work, than just delivering software with open source.

[onlydeadheroes]

> github turns software social, with all the anxieties that come with it

And there is your problem. Maybe the social functions of github are not helping?