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There's not, and there could not be a 'management' to drive the development process. KDE could not force a 'stability release' among its developers.
why not ... wait that might require some discipline. "
Evolution doesn't require discipline, or any kind of organisation or overview, or even any notion of purpose or intent, in order to produce complex and high-performance organisms.
FOSS development progresses in a process described as a "meritocracy", which in some ways is quite similar to the processes of evolution, which in turn has been summarised as "survival of the fittest".
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There's not, and there could not be a 'management' to drive the development process. KDE could not force a 'stability release' among its developers.
why not ... wait that might require some discipline. "
Evolution doesn't require discipline, or any kind of organisation or overview, or even any notion of purpose or intent, in order to produce complex and high-performance organisms.
FOSS development progresses in a process described as a "meritocracy", which in some ways is quite similar to the processes of evolution, which in turn has been summarised as "survival of the fittest".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Open_Source
Edited 2012-01-27 08:45 UTC