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Open Source’s Cult Of Personality Is Dying—Thankfully

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Matt Asay
May 5, 2014

Roy Rubin, co-founder of the popular Magento open-source project, announced this week he is bowing out of the project he helped launch back in 2008.

It’s not the first time the leader of an open-source project has stepped away from her project, but it’s remarkable by its response: Relative silence.

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Matt Asay

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