Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

first improving their distribution,

developers will find more software bugs when the process is highly participatory (like a “bazaar”), compared to when it’s restricted to a smaller group of developers (like a “cathedral”).

“when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates

Source by an Accidental Revolutionary,”

They just want to make things, and sharing is a natural byproduct of those efforts.

aggregators are pure intermediaries.

Platforms deliver value to third parties that build on top of them,

they do not want to spend time familiarizing themselves with a project’s goals, roadmap, and contribution process. These developers primarily see themselves as users

Code, like any other type of content available online today, is trending toward modularity: