Peter West "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?"
On 6 Jan 2014, at 6:11 pm, James E Lang <jim+...@lang.hm> wrote: > This has been a most enlightening discussion. > > I am a big fan of open source software. That said, this discussion has shined > a bright light on one of the most problematic areas of the concept. > > I might be totally off base here but as I view it, without a central > management structure to _enforce_ standards two separate groups of developers > may develop what appear to the end user as being similar related features > that are inconsistent with each other. This results in unpleasant surprises > for the end user. If there had been a central management structure to _enforce_ standards, there would be NO open source software, full stop. No linux, no OS X, no samba, no python, no MySql, no Open Office and no Libre Office, to mention but a few. The productivity of OSS development teams, imperfect as it is, cannot be matched by any structures designed for the management of software development. It is only matched by startups with small, committed teams and inspired technical leadership. Success and rapid increases in the scale of the development teams kills their productivity. Companies that have carved out a fantastically profitable niche can survive this transition, bit they can only retain a fraction of their original productivity. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
