Open Source Dynamics. Stefano Mazzocchi: It's an design pattern: "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not". This is extremely hard to understand, it's probably the most counter-intuitive thing about open source dynamics. [Sam Ruby]

This is deep.  Read the entire post for the reasoning and experience behind this observation. 

Stefano is an Apache guy.  He asserts that when IBM or Sun or some other large organization donates a huge chunk of working code (often an entire system), a community fails to form around that code/project.  Instead, you need small, incremental contributions that are understandable and undo-able.

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