[anyfactor]

Why didn't a group like this emerged in software?

My opinion is that you obviously don't pay for free and/or open software with money but you do pay with the fatigue of bearing the creators ideological and personal whims. Software requires maintenance and support. It is not a do it once and do it perfectly. Also let's not forget about us the users who constantly attempt to dictate the path the software is heading.

If you can take away the criticism, maintenability and support commitment, you can create Bourbaki-esque softwares. Case in point - GNU utilities like cat, ls, sed etc.

[williamstein]

I tried to start a group like this for mathematical software: https://trac.sagemath.org/#AccountNamesMappedtoRealNames

[carlob]

Possibly Satoshi Nakamoto?

[froh]

I just hope they have deposited some post mortem disclosure somewhere...

[renox]

Freax