When Richard Hipp of SQLite was setting up his foundation to manage the project, Mitchell Baker of Mozilla advised him to ensure only developers got the final s

When Richard Hipp of SQLite was setting up his foundation to manage the project, Mitchell Baker of Mozilla advised him to ensure only developers got the final say, and that was excellent advice (Baker is a lawyer herself by training). We all know Architecture Astronauts who have been so long out of the field their recommendations are completely disconnected from reality. Back when I worked at a Fortune Global 500, we were invited by IBM to a lunch with Grady Booch, and seldom have I been as unimpressed by the torrent of meaningless platitudes he spewed during that event.