Development Methodology - Better

• No company in the world has as much or as good talent as is outside their company on the Internet

  • For projects that have achieved critical mass
  • Projects tap talented contributors all over the world via the Internet
    • Who would not be available to a single company

• Product/project marketing can occur before a line of code exists

• Immediate feedback from a widespread community allows good ideas to rise to the top

• Peer review (flames) and scaling FORCE quality

• Darwinian selection among competing projects

  • Selection is often on social, rather than technical grounds
  • Sorts the wheat from the chaff