I would like to make a comment about something the author said about the social and coordinative aspects of Free Software, “Communication is key, and it is hampered by time zones, cultural barriers, more or less reflected preferences and prejudices, and also simply by physical distance”. While I agree that these are problems, I don't think these are limited to Free/Open source software. I have run into these problems at my job since at one point we had to communicated with a team in India. I am sure that they are more of a problem in the Free/Open environment, but they do exist in the corporate world.
I also found the KDE motto of “those who do the work decide” to be a interesting one. There can still be arguments/disagreements of what direction the program should go, but I feel that developers will have a better time doing work they believe in and not work they were told to do.
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