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"community development simply doesn't scale"

I think that depends on what you apply it to. Community development seems to work well enough for individual projects, but not in-between projects (see amount of duplication caused by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org).

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> Community development seems to work well enough for individual projects, but not in-between projects

that's pretty close to saying that community development doesn't scale, isn't it ? :-)

Well, it scales within projects (see Linux kernel for a good example of a distributed project run by a mixture of volunteers and people paid to work on it), it doesn't seem to scale as well to projects working together.

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