Virtual Decentralized Networks: Linux's Organization

barries writes: "Here is an interesting take on the Linux Project which tries to put it in a historical perspective and explain why traditional structures and theory don't fully apply to it. It overlooks a few things but gets most of the basics right." You might want to skip ahead a bit in the paper to get to the Linux-specific sections.

Comments

Where have we heard this before?

[cperciva]

I don't know about everyone else here, but personally after 2000 I've been a bit skeptical of claims that something "is breaking new ground and traditional structures and theory don't fully apply to it."