NewsForge: The Paradox of Free/Open Source Project Management

“Leaders from three separate but related — and incredibly
successful — free/open source projects agree: If you want the
project to move to the next level, let go and let the community
take over. We asked Larry Wall, creator of Perl; Brian Behlendorf,
the Apache Project leader; and Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux,
for their thoughts on why this happens and how they and their
projects have fared as a result.

“All of these projects are tied in some way to the great
enabler: the Internet. They share synergy with it. All have
contributed to the growth of the Internet, and the Internet has
provided the medium that has allowed them to thrive. If the
Internet is one extended machine network, Perl is the baling wire
that has held it together…”

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