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  1. Interesting share on Linux; I guess this is the downside of “crowdsourcing”, it’s like American Idol out there, especially to a project like Linux, everybody wants to contribute and be a rock star (kernel developers think they are the coolest). Torvalds’ name was mentioned in movie Swordfish after all.

    But Linus is clearly overwhelmed by patch requests. I thought the new Git system was supposed to alleviate some of this burden… anyway, some parts of the code must be too central even for a Git based system.

    The dynamic is most interesting; Linus says “if you can do a better job, go do it”, but others do not want that actually, they want both to contribute, be noticed and vent their frustration when this does not happen – at the same time.

    With a project open at this degree, quality will be an issue, but the filtering of bad stuff should also be done by crowds themselves. For Linux project, it seems, contribution is scaled, but the filtering process is not.

    There are certainly areas that can be improved on current OSS model. We just don’t know these “social innovations” yet.

    Or, it is perfect, just “hot” projects cause strain on the central maintainer.

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