Development Methodology - Cheaper

• Shared development at high scale

  • This presents a fundamental challenge to current business models of horizontal software developers
  • Costs are hidden - even here, people are working on their interests
  • Examples
  • OSS desktop work: 2 major projects:
    • Gnome (> 300 active contributors)
    • KDE (> 400 active contributors)
    • It is OK that there is duplication between Gnome and KDE - resources are not finite in the conventional sense
    • in fact necessary, to select out the projects and leaders
  • XFree86 (X server) (~400 active contributors)
  • Linux kernel (>> thousand)