kaal:claim:3808859-019

The dominant failure of the open source model is that most projects never reach critical mass; only a small elite of projects attracts enough developers who believe in the vision, and the majority simply cannot.

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Perhaps most significantly, most open source projects cannot reach critical mass to further their development agenda. Only a small number of elite open source projects can attract developer contributions.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021), IV.4 Shortcomings, p. 33
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: critical mass failurefamily: cold-start-and-bootstrappingopen-source-and-code

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