Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--8ba0be-Now, human nature is very comp/en

Now, human nature is very complex. Whatever it is people are doing, they might do for various reasons. In fact, one person will often have multiple motives simultaneously for a single act. Nonetheless, there are people who say, "if the software is free, that means nobody's paid to write it, so no one will write it." Now, obviously they were confusing the two meanings of the word "free," so their theory was based on a confusion. In any case, we can compare their theory with empirical fact and we can see that at least hundreds, maybe thousands of people are paid to work on free software, including some people here, I believe, and there are about a million or so people developing free software at all for the many different reasons they have. {So to say that nobody} This simplistic theory about motivation is absurd.