“James Dixon has given the thumbs-up to my stretching his Bee
Keeper analogy to explain open source development models (which is
nice) and in doing so has suggested a new term to help quickly
explain the difference between vendor- and community- dominated
development projects.“The debate about the difference between the two approaches, and
the language used to describe them, has been simmering for some
time. For some background on it, and an explanation about why it
matters, see Ted Ts’o’s post from April…”