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In article <1991Jun19.190251.5049@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:

>The most ideologically pure free-market theoreticians assume that
>human beings are motivated strictly by economic concerns; interestingly,
>they agree with Marx on this score.  Of course, real human beings have
>many other concerns; the best hackers, writers, artists, dancers,
>musicians, etc practice their art for the sheer joy of it.  For this
>reason, RMS has managed to attract a highly skilled crew of volunteers
>and workers living on activist wages because he's come up with a vision
>that excites them.

Just what I was thinking.  When I was poking through the Emacs
documentation files recently, I found an article which discussed
reasearch showing that when you reward people for doing something,
they become less interested in doing it for its own sake.  Perhaps the
GNU people make better software because their intrinsic enjoyment of
it has not been eroded by monetary rewards.
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Ben Geer
bgeer@silver.lcs.mit.edu