From my experience, which is purely anecdotal some open source  programmers love giving back to the community. Some of them have motivation rooting from them learning programming through open-source materials and feedback. Thus, wanting to give back to the community.<p>Some people enjoy it, and can get benefits from it, such as gaining experience and reference for a person&#x27;s portfolio. There have been some people who have been getting more job offers from open-source repositories than their online job application.<p>Companies and programmers actually benefit from open source compared to closed-source, look at this dicussion [1]<p>1.
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