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Originally Posted by Andre Klapper View Post
My favourite example for proving this are Dan's elaborations on Novell's gnome-main-menu development (the technical details are outdated nowadays, but his points from 2006 are still valid: Bike shed, stop energy). See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/deskt.../msg00115.html .
I don't think that proves anything, except that Novell confused an increase in openness with a total loss of control.

Alan Cox's reply is particular relevant:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/deskt.../msg00156.html

Yes, they'd've got a whole load of comments, but they didn't have to implement all the suggestions; or take every patch. That's where leadership comes in:


From maemo.org: what next?, by me exactly one year ago

However, by being more open they could get community involvement and buy-in. Many of the comments may have been dross, but some could have been good!
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