[pnako]

My argument is: if a complex project like the Linux kernel, or MySQL, or CMake, or pretty much any large piece of open source software, can be written by remote teams, I don't see what's specific about typical corporate or start-up technology that would prevent that.

[rusticpenn]

The difference is that, the developers are unpaid for the Linux Kernel.

[mkl]

Not true at all. In 2017, only 7.7% of contributions were unpaid [1], and it's been dropping for many years: "from 14.6 percent of contributions in 2012 to just 11.8 percent" in 2015 [2]

[1] https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/

[2] https://www.cio.com/article/2909736/who-s-behind-linux-now-a...

[rusticpenn]

Maybe I should have been clearer. The payments to the contributors and the targets of their respective companies are not always identical. A team from redhat contributing to the kernel might not be remote and will have their own performance measurement stratergies.

[pts_]

Which makes wasting money on meetings over comms through text even more glaring.