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Maintainers don't scale forever


    

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They can't keep up with a 100 developers


      

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Some try (Linus did) but it's the path to burnout


      

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There are more than 1400 Linux kernel developers


    

    

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Open source tends to value quality


    

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No marketeers saying "ship! ship! ship!"


    

    

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Result


    

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Sacrifice time to market in order to maintain quality










 
 








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13 Feb 2005 lm@bitmover.com