Except that a company, no matter how heterogenous, has an overarching organization, whereas the open-source community doesn't. There is no CEO of open source,

Except that a company, no matter how heterogenous, has an overarching organization, whereas the open-source community doesn't. There is no CEO of open source, there are no open-source shareholders, there are no open-source quarterly earnings reports, there are no open-source P&G policies (with or without stack ranking), and so on.