What motivates you writing open source software?

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  • However, my biggest and most popular open source project is one that I don't originally write, but rather I inherited a popular project that has been abandoned by their original author/maintainers. I use Python a lot, so I wanted to contribute to the community in a significant way, so unlike my other projects I do take the time promoting this project as well. I felt it's more like a community service for this project.

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  • There's also efforts to enable funding for FOSS but none of the approaches seems currently promising.

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