"I created this #FreeSoftware and I expect contributions and caretakers". No. Wrong expectation. It doesn't work that way.

As #FOSS dev one starts a project based on ones own self-interested motives. We had needs to be satisfied, and addressing them is the reward, the return value. We cannot *expect* that to just flow to us, must assure it instead. Only where expectations are mutual can we count on them. Actual commitments underpin and drive collaborative arrangements.

> “Ask not what you can do for the commons, but what the commons can do for you.” — First principle of Hedonic peer production.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#chaordic-organization

FOSS is asking sacrifice. Grab your pitchfork, be poor and hungry. Wave our flags of unwarranted expectations. Let's fight the enemy while producing their grain!

Only the most fervent join. Natural activists all, flag bearers in many color variations.

To others there's no rallying cry, no attraction. No reward in sight. There's no intrinsic motivation.

@hongminhee