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From: sk@nvg.ntnu.no (Steinar Knutsen)
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Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS (Was: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red
Date: 23 Aug 2001 08:50:02 GMT
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In article <yhRg7.10738$2u.76684@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison
<dennison@telepath.com> wrote:

>In article <9m0e48$5he$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
>>[...] What I am observing is that AdaOS is Vaporware and one of the
>>reasons is that (IMHO) nobody is getting paid or seeing some way of
>>eventually getting paid for having been involved in
>
>That is indeed one reason. However, you can't make the argument that
>its failing because of its status as an OpenSource project, because:
>
>a) There are plenty of other succesful counter-examples. b) It
>has never been organized the way any of those other succesful
>counter-examples were organized.
>
>OpenSource projects, if performed properly, *do* have their own system
>of rewards for the participants. If you have some spare time, I'd
>suggest you read over ESR's essay "Homesteading the Noosphere". [...]

Another interesting text is (chosen more or less at random from a huge
pile on the subject)
http://www.zigonperf.com/PMNews/reward_and_perf_research.html

Quote from findings from this study: "Findings from the meta-analysis
indicate that only expected tangible rewards had a decremental effect on
performance."

Search for "overjustification" and some other appropriate keywords on
Google or your search engine of choice and loads of papers and articles
and lecture notes will pop up.

Cut'n'paste: The "Overjustification" Hypothesis:  A person's intrinsic
interest in an activity may be decreased by inducing them to engage in
the activity as an explicit means to some extrinsic goal.

Sounds reasonable to me, any student knows that no matter how
interesting a subject is, it will become a boring headache when it
enters a curriculum. ;)
-- 
Steinar