> But that's just inherent downside of the "bazaar" model. I don't think how we can "treat maintainers better" without going full corporate/without going full "

> But that's just inherent downside of the "bazaar" model. I don't think how we can "treat maintainers better" without going full corporate/without going full "cathedral". We now have two decades of arms-race data in OSS projects influenced by ESR's paper [1]. At least one bazaar [2] has operated for centuries. Bazaars can develop decentralized responses to dynamic local threats. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Bazaar,_Istanbul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Bazaar,_Istanbul