This isn't unique to the Open Source movement - basically, all human mass movements eat themselves with hostility, aggression and downright .. cannibalism, of t

This isn't unique to the Open Source movement - basically, all human mass movements eat themselves with hostility, aggression and downright .. cannibalism, of the metaphorical kind .. sooner or later. This is why leadership is so important, because without a leader, the human mob maintains a state of semi-cannibalism, feeding on itself. With a leader, they either stop doing that and get on with the project, or .. they eat their leader, and for a little period of time while doing that, forget about their own self-cannibalism long enough to actually get big things done. In many open source projects, things go awry because the leader is trying to engage in aggressive cannibalization of 'others', and so the goals and purposes of the group are not propelled forward.