It is an honour for me to be asked to contribute a foreword to the book of my friends Therese and Ralph Spitzer. I got to know them during an assignment as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and I have shared to the full the distress that comes to all those who have to watch people that they love affected by mental illness in one form or another. I have been an orientalist for only half my life; for the first half I was a biochemist, embryologist, and experimental morphologist. "When I, a young man, was called to the bar" (as Gilbert & Sullivan have it), in...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Informatik - Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universitat Wien, 27 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wir prasentieren theoretische Uberlegungen sowie empirische Resultate zu der Frage, warum erfahrene Programmierer unentgeltlich an Projekten zur Entwicklung von Software teilnehmen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass nur ein Zusammenspiel okonomischer, psychologischer und soziologischer Erklarungsansatze ein gutes Bild von der tatsachlichen (durchschnittlichen) Motivationsstruktur der Teilnehmer ergibt. Karrierebezogene Motive...

It is an honour for me to be asked to contribute a foreword to the book of my friends Therese and Ralph Spitzer. I got to know them during an assignment as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and I have shared to the full the distress that comes to all those who have to watch people that they love affected by mental illness in one form or another. I have been an orientalist for only half my life; for the first half I was a biochemist, embryologist, and experimental morphologist. "When I, a young man, was called to the bar" (as Gilbert & Sullivan have it), in...