Linus Torvalds's Lessons on Software Development Management

"Torvalds says there are two things that people very commonly get completely wrong, both at an individual developer level and at companies.

"The first thing is thinking that you can throw things out there and ask people to help," when it comes to open-source software development, he says. "That's not how it works."

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