In any large organizations, fiefdoms are bound to develop. If you don't have principles for dealing with it, what ends up happening is that new ideas will be cr

In any large organizations, fiefdoms are bound to develop. If you don't have principles for dealing with it, what ends up happening is that new ideas will be crowded out and claimed by one of the leaders of the fiefdom. The Linux model has formalized this process. I think more large open source projects should use this model.