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I wonder if it would have the same issues as the "open source" collaborative cookie: http://log.scifihifi.com/post/344372246/it-may-have-been-a-fine-cookie-but

I wonder if it would have the same issues as the "open source" collaborative cookie: http://log.scifihifi.com/post/344372246/it-may-have-been-a-fine-cookie-but-since-no http://log.scifihifi.com/post/344372246/it-may-have-been-a-f... >[Y]ou’ll probably recognize the "Dream Team" of expert bakers convened by Gundrum as his "open source" group falling into the same sorts of traps (a lack of coherent vision, a reluctance to discount any idea, an obsession with novel and exotic techniques, a mounting frustration as individual contributors struggle to be heard). In the end, they turn in a passable but uninspiring product, while the traditional R&D team wins the competition by acting on a bit of clever insight from its leader.

wavesounds 13y ago
That's a really interesting point. IIRC in the Cathedral and The Bazaar[1] the author points out that a big part of the reason Linux was so successful is because Linus was such a master at running the project. Perhaps thats what these cookies were missing and perhaps an open source album would also need a 'Conductor' picking and choosing the best pull requests otherwise I could definitely see it resulting in lowest-common denominator blandness. 1. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-baza...