Open-source software is about making software, not about staking claims to product areas and stroking egos. Linux Torvalds didn't ask for Andrew Tanenbaum's opi

Open-source software is about making software, not about staking claims to product areas and stroking egos. Linux Torvalds didn't ask for Andrew Tanenbaum's opinion before releasing Linux, and John Resig didn't send Sam Stephenson a pull request for Prototype before releasing JQuery.