You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
Eric S. RaymondIn early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
Eric S. RaymondLinux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond