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Article:		There Is No Open Source Community
Subject:		It's about sustainable code bases and cat herding
Date:		2006-01-13 10:29:18
From:		mbligh

You miss the point. Writing software is, indeed, pretty easy. But .. Writing a sustainable codebase that's reliable, debuggable and extentable is hard. Herding the cats that are open source developers is hard. It's partly a technical problem, but it's mostly a social and administrative problem. That's where the leaders of the open source projects are heros, not for grinding out code (though they do that well too).

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No offense but...
2006-01-13 17:02:05 john.mark [View]

Actually you miss the point :@)