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What do you think is the best incentive?


There is no silver bullet. Money works on most contexts, but sometimes reputation, social structure and idealism work too. The open-source culture and Wikipedia are great examples.

Reminds me of Eric Steven Raymond's hacker howto from 2001 [1] "Like most cultures without a money economy, hackerdom runs on reputation"

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html




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