Forcing Leaders Into Benevolence
Jason
Hunter: There’s a powerful dynamic that applies to
leaders of open source projects due to the threat of external
forking. It forces leaders into benevolence because anyone at any
time can take the same source code you have and compete with you.
Imagine if corporate companies had to work that way. How responsive
they’d be! Imagine if companies couldn’t use patents
and copyright law to retain customers. That’s what open
source projects live with.