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I agree. We don't have "official data", this was just my opinion, based on my personal experience. I think most of the people start OSS for the reasons I mentioned, but what happens later depends on many things - success of the project, luck, type of personality of the owner, crossing paths, right place at right time, etc. "Pure engineer" for me is someone who just wants to code, to solve a problem, and doesn't care a lot about other stuff. Even processes to organise the team (SCRUM meetings for example) are boring, waste of time. Not to mention other stuff. But that same person can, of course, change over time and go searching for other things. Me being an example - a significant part of my career I was like that, with a vision of being a technical lead or architect in the future. Until one day I realised I'm not so hyped about that anymore, that now other things motivate me. This document, 10 years ago, would be mostly new information for me. Probably not so interesting. Now it's old news for me, but it's as a "pure engineer's" good starting point, something to get him in the right direction if he wants to expand his competence toward monetising his OSS. |