why do people release open source scripts

foxxxychick · #1

When they can sell it and make money?

GRXlinks · #2

The popular ones are group efforts with people chipping in their ideas like Wordpress.

viking · #3

Some projects are too big for one individual coder and they team up....then they can make it happen where they all win.

BrasSmonkey · #4

exposure... like internship. those people on wordpress get jobs through those free plugins

alsporn · #5

BrasSmonkey wrote: ↑
March 18th, 2023, 8:52 am
exposure... like internship. those people on wordpress get jobs through those free plugins

I had never thought about that one

DonMK · #6

Think how much you would be paying if Linux, Wordpress just to mention 2 were pay scripts.