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Matthew Hutson is the News Editor at Psychology Today. See full bio

March 3, 2008, Personality

Comments on "Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts"

Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts

By Matthew Hutson on March 3, 2008 in Brainstorm

Open source projects are like high-tech barn-raising. There's been some recent and salacious speculation on the motivations of Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, but what motivates us mortals to contribute to open source enterprises? And do people who write code for software projects like Firefox have different drives than people who contribute content to projects like Wikipedia? Read More

Blake Yardley

Submitted by Minh Nguyễn on March 5, 2008 - 8:41pm.

Not to be the nitpicker, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that the Onion is a satirical website.

Now when do I get my street cred? ;^)

If you use a cartoon from

Submitted by Anonymous on March 5, 2008 - 9:29pm.

If you use a cartoon from xkcd.com then the least you could do is cite it. Legal, ethical obligations and good manners.

xkcd.com

Submitted by Matthew Hutson on March 6, 2008 - 7:05am.

Good point, anonymous. I was hoping people would get that info by clicking on the link above it but I should have used the opportunity to plug one of my favorite webcomics more explicitly. EVERYONE, CHECK OUT XKCD.COM. I've now hotlinked the image to his site too.