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What OpenSource and Wiki Communities can teach business about innovation and collaboration / Brian Behlendorf edit

• Discussion about the difficulties and failures of corporate development efforts
• Hard to predict timeframes; demotivation amongst developers due to oursourcing or lack of development agility may lead to a lack of productivity and stewardship
• huge difference in productivity btw a paycheck driven developer and someone who really cares. "The Mythical man-month"
• Failure to match engineers to projects that interest them
• "Project" mindset (fixed start and end date) kills continuity
• Tight scheduling often means that there's no time to explore what other developers are working on or clean up one's code for others.
• As a result, software re-use, for most, is a myth
• Software components are not like "bricks" they are more like "heads of lettuce" in that they decay over time. "Bit-Rot"
• The biggest hurdle to re-use is trust
• project oriented mentality vs. "stewardship model" / developers who care about the code long after the 1.0 release
• OpenSource best practices
  • Transparency
  • Gradients of access
  • Efficient mapping from developer interest to interesting projects
  • no "architects" who can't or won't code
  • dominant personalities only survive if they can still support a community
  • talk is cheap; (working) code is substance
• Development predictability is a myth
• Different metaphor - TheGreenhouse