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In a study conducted in 2002, it was determined that approximately 58% of a particular open source community is composed of IT professionals, particular programmers or system administrators that are already experienced in the industry for an average of 11 years. Although open source development was likened described in its basic sense as software development without the politics involved in traditional avenues, there are various reasons why these developers were motivated to join the community in the first place.

The following describes the reasons why members of the open source development community have participated in the movement at all without any potential monetary benefits -- except for coming up with a product that they could use and enjoy. The list below is based on a study conducted by Novell Inc and is arranged based on the number of respondents choosing a particular reason or sets of reasons

* Intellectually Stimulating (44.9%)

* A way to improve their own skills (41.3%)

* Work functionality (33.8%)

* They believe that source codes should be open to all (33.1%)

* Non-work functionality (29.7%)

* They feel it’s obligation to participate because of their own use of the application (28.5%)

* A Chance to work with an excellent team of talented developers (20.3%)

* Will give them professional status (17.5%)

* A way to beat or get back at expensive proprietary software (11.1%)

* Attracted by the concept and reputation of the open source movement (11.0%)

* License of use forced them to participate (0.2%)

* Others (16.3%)

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