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by transpute 816 days ago
> But that's just inherent downside of the "bazaar" model. I don't think how we can "treat maintainers better" without going full corporate/without going full "cathedral".

We now have two decades of arms-race data in OSS projects influenced by ESR's paper [1].

At least one bazaar [2] has operated for centuries.

Bazaars can develop decentralized responses to dynamic local threats.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Bazaar,_Istanbul