> For the first 15 years, OpenSSL membership was mostly a small collection of individuals working on a part time basis and the membership fluctuated and changed through those years.
I never claimed OpenSSL was the product of a lone wolf or that teams have no place in coding. The essence of my point is that the invocation of "teamwork", often as a concept and practice distinct from the sum of its parts, obscures the significance of individual contributors who making great software. After all, code is a mirror of the mind. That one can distinguish between great and not-so-great code implies that one can distinguish between a great and not-so-great coder.
> For the first 15 years, OpenSSL membership was mostly a small collection of individuals working on a part time basis and the membership fluctuated and changed through those years.
I never claimed OpenSSL was the product of a lone wolf or that teams have no place in coding. The essence of my point is that the invocation of "teamwork", often as a concept and practice distinct from the sum of its parts, obscures the significance of individual contributors who making great software. After all, code is a mirror of the mind. That one can distinguish between great and not-so-great code implies that one can distinguish between a great and not-so-great coder.