:Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects
Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects Aug 5, 2008, 17 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (6194 reads) (Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
"Torvalds does this by managing a self-selected team of over a thousand developers around the world, united only by a mailing list (the Linux Kernel Mailing List) and a source-code management system (Git). Torvalds herds Linux programming cats from multiple major companies, such as IBM, Intel and SGI, as well as the occasional stereotypical developer programming in a basement.