On my personal site last week, I talked about Contributing to Open Source projects in a variety of ways ranging from helping with documentation to writing code to just finding and talking about the tools you find useful.

I talked about it without considering a simple question that - luckily - Dennis Crane of Dr Explain asked:

Keith, why [do] you help and contribute [to] open source projects? What's your motivation?

It's a very good question and the answer should sound familiar to quite a few people...