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What is your argument? Those sound like two very different types of product development that I would expect to work very differently in nearly every conceivable

• pnako 7y ago
  My argument is: if a complex project like the Linux kernel, or MySQL, or CMake, or pretty much any large piece of open source software, can be written by remote teams, I don't see what's specific about typical corporate or start-up technology that would prevent that.
  • rusticpenn 7y ago
    The difference is that, the developers are unpaid for the Linux Kernel.
    • mkl 7y ago
      Not true at all. In 2017, only 7.7% of contributions were unpaid [1], and it's been dropping for many years: "from 14.6 percent of contributions in 2012 to just 11.8 percent" in 2015 [2] [1] https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/ https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/ [2] https://www.cio.com/article/2909736/who-s-behind-linux-now-and-should-you-be-afraid.html https://www.cio.com/article/2909736/who-s-behind-linux-now-a...
      • rusticpenn 7y ago
        Maybe I should have been clearer. The payments to the contributors and the targets of their respective companies are not always identical. A team from redhat contributing to the kernel might not be remote and will have their own performance measurement stratergies.
    • pts_ 7y ago
      Which makes wasting money on meetings over comms through text even more glaring.