Some of us just like programming enough to do it on our spare time.
Me, I am not at all certain the Web would have yet progressed beyond a 1998ish level without open source software and, perhaps more importantly, open standards.
It is all but certain that you have used FOSS with some frequency. If you have no innate desire to work on code on your own, perhaps you could view it as a debt to repay.
Agreed. As programmers we do not work in a vacuum. Our entire industry is built on abstractions. So unless you're programming in ASM you are definitely taking advantage of the work that others before you have done for free or that their company has released for free.
Me, I am not at all certain the Web would have yet progressed beyond a 1998ish level without open source software and, perhaps more importantly, open standards.
It is all but certain that you have used FOSS with some frequency. If you have no innate desire to work on code on your own, perhaps you could view it as a debt to repay.