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Ger wrote:

> 
>>> I wonder why you think this.
>>>
>>> There is a sufficient large number of open source projects out there with
>>> which it worked, and still works. OpenOffice and such come to mind.
>>>
>> Probably because there is a sufficiently large number of open
>> source projects out there with which it didn't work, and precious
>> few with which it did.
>>
>> OpenOffice was first developed as proprietary software and is
>> currently maintained by Sun. I believe that there is a strong
>> leadership emanating from Sun to guide the project.
>>
> 
> Agreed, but still.......
> Just have a look around, Lazarus, Amarok, KOffice, even KDE, Gnome and Linux
> itself are joint efforts. And because they are works in progress people
> will come and go.

	I don't know how the Lazarus, Amarok, KOffice and KDE teams are
organized, but I do know that the Gnome and Linux teams each have a
"dictator" that steers the project.

> If the group of designers, developers, coders and testers is willing to work
> on it then an open source version of Povray will work. It's just one of
> those things that one has to be willing to do, not because one is paid to
> do it.
> If after a while only Thorsten and Chris are the only ones left working on
> it then obviously Povray didn't have what it needs to be an open source
> project, but saying from the getgo that it can't work sounds a bit defiant
> to me.

	If you re-read Warp's post, you'll notice that this is *not* what
he said. What he did say is that such a project needs a strong
leader to keep the team focused and to take decisions and make them
stick. All open source projects whose management method I know fall
into three categories:

 - Small projects (1 to 3 developers) which don't need much
organization, but progress slowly and often disappear when the
original team loses interest;

 - Large projects which have a strong leader and succeed (Linux,
Gnome, Blender...);

 - Large projects which don't have a strong leader and eventually
fail (Stampede...).

		Jerome
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