The author claims that people's offering of help is not true help since it's for selfish reasons. I would like to argue that this is natural and necessary to some extent. People are motivated by what benefits them personally.
All your relationships, pretty much everything you do, has a selfish aspect to it. You're not in a relationship with someone because you're being kind towards them, you're in a relationship because it benefits you, and hopefully it's mutually beneficial.
So, you need to let people be just a little bit selfish, because you need them to be motivated. Without people working for the sake of personal motivation, open source wouldn't work.
All your relationships, pretty much everything you do, has a selfish aspect to it. You're not in a relationship with someone because you're being kind towards them, you're in a relationship because it benefits you, and hopefully it's mutually beneficial.
So, you need to let people be just a little bit selfish, because you need them to be motivated. Without people working for the sake of personal motivation, open source wouldn't work.