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It was a good read, but it might as well have been titled: Why Afghanistan has poor Democracy uptake, and how to improve that.

Basically, the author says, "update" the process that's responsible for the open-source world, into a more methodological corporate environment.

He doesn't realize it's a completly different world. In which the mentioned "fixes" are contradictory to it's sprit.

Developers want to spend 100% of their time just hacking away. They are not going to transform that into a 10% dev time and 90% "sit there doing UI and feedback studies, and nurture-the-community time".



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