Open Source and freeware because it is protected?

I just again was curious so I checked out a link called CiteULike. I found it still at the touchscreen section of my reading tour. “Accidentally” I hovered over the share button and then I was keen on checking what’s there – somehow I’m really doing this collecting as many social sharing sites in order to boost my traffic, though I did not have yet much boost. Anyway, I checked CiteULike what I met already once and at that time I decided to leave out from my social networking bookmarking or how to say, sites. It’s an awful design and – I design websites – as you may know it for now… So as I gave it another chance I clicked on the browse button to see what’s in and I found this:

Theorists often speculate why open source and free software project contributors give their work away. Although contributors make their work publicly available, they do not forfeit their rights to it. Community managed software

projects protect their work by using several legal and normative tactics, which should not be conflated with a disregard for or neglect of intellectual property rights. These tactics allow a project’s intellectual property to be publicly and freely available and yet, governable. Exploration of this seemingly contradictory state may provide new insight into governance models for the management of digital intellectual property.

The title looked somehow like this “Community managed software projects protect their work”, this is what I clicked on for I wondered whether he is speaking about Wikipedia-like projects or protecting such free stuffs. The sentence did not make sense for me anyway so I really wanted to check it, and you see above what I found. I read it twice and it did not make sense even the more. The title did not really correspond to the content, for it’s all about protecting free work, and the community managed is not anyway the core issue, or maybe it is, I don’t know. But… what I could figure

out from this writing is that Open Source and freeware creators give away their works because it is in a way protected through the Comunnity managed software, or social network. Though somehow the protection method describtion makes some sense, the “why” is not unanswered. It starts with a challenge to answer the big deal question “why on earth people do great software and then give it away free”. The answer that because it is protected is not an answer.

So after all I decided to leave CiteULike soon and try to compute in my memory that “come never back, it’s awful plus nonsense”. Tell me if you have other opinion or if you understood the cited cite from CiteULike.org

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