I really like the author’s listing of advantages open source provides that you just don’t get with closed source, it aligns very closely with my point of view. This is great reference material for my little archive of “read this to understand my point of view”.

I’m also skeptical to what GitHub’s social coding concept has done to maintainership in general. There are projects that don’t need frequent updates, and projects that benefit from being the vision of a single person. Critiquing maintainers for refusing to let others in puts unnecessary pressure on people who just want to share something they’ve made with others.