[bayindirh]

> Also, CERN does not have a profit motive.

This is a great point. We work with CERN on a project, and we're all volunteers, but we work on something we need, and contribute back to it wholeheartedly.

At the end of the day, CERN wants to give away project governance to someone else in the group, because they don't want to be the BDFL of anything they help creating. It allows them to pursue new and shiny things and build them.

There's an air consisting of "it's done when it's done", and "we need this, so we should build this without watering it down", so projects move at a steady pace, but the code and product is always as high quality as possible.