Groklaw’s Shawn Boyette has written an article for Groklaw on why Free Software really matters. He tells anecdotally what this MIT research paper, “Management & Virtual Decentralised Networks: The Linux Project,” [PDF] posits, that lowering barriers to entry and participation and utilizing a virtual, decentralized management structure are superior to command-and-control hierarchies when it comes to software development.
Link: groklaw.net
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