
130 CHAPTER 5 New and Emerging Process Methodologies
programmers work for free, obtaining satisfaction from intangibles. Sur-
prisingly, this actually increases their motivation.
There is still much to be learned about open source development methods,
including a wide assessment of what would make them successful and what
are their chances. We can see that the successful ones share certain charac-
teristics, but we do not know how many other projects with the same char-
acteristics have been unsuccessful. It appears that open source development
methods will become more important in the future, especially as many of
their techniques become better understood ...