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This is a poor argument attacking a straw man. Each of the cited papers discussing "hero" projects are in the context of medium to large organisations. While op
by iandanforth 7y ago
This is a poor argument attacking a straw man. Each of the cited papers discussing "hero" projects are in the context of medium to large organisations. While open source GitHub projects are frequently self-contained tools or libraries. Equating the two is a monumental and unsupported jump.
- bartread 7y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this is nonsense. I wrote a fairly long comment, which you (might) find elsewhere in the discussion, then started reading the other comments and was starting to wonder what other people were seeing that I wasn't. Short version: the OSS versus every other type of software project comparison seems very apples and oranges.
- falcongod082 7y agoThis isn't an argument, it's a description. I suspect you didn't read the paper.