Re: os discuss (http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/7263.html)

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 ---- bob@acm.org wrote: 

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> The Press tends to treat Linux as if there is a "Linux Corporation", with
> industrial-type schedules. So when someone like Linus hints that something
> really new will be ready around Thanksgiving, the press interprets that as
> a commitment. After all, isn't Linus like "The Chairman of the Board", just
> like Roger Smith or GM?  When Linus and his merry kernel men feel there's
> nothing to release in that timeframe, the press makes a fuss. Again, how
> could GM not release a new model when they said they would?

Forgetting the schedules for a moment, I'd like to see
your explanations as to why Linux is NOT being run like
a large monolithic organization.  Eric Raymond's final
comments in his Brief History of Hackerdomp point out that the bazzar/Open Source movement flourishes because
which has no standards, is released and fed back
rapidly, and which involves a great many
participants.