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izak30: Joel Spolsky talks about this over and over on the Stack Overflow podcast.  People who are willing to do something for free !== People who are willing to do something for small bits of money or quantified reward.It's possible that there is incentive to be had in the 'common goal';  "The Foo Project's Charity is the FSF; If we squash all the bugs by Labor Day, 80% of donations will go to the FSF.  Otherwise, 50%"