{"id":44,"date":"2007-04-05T08:43:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/open-source-doest-not-imply-dictatorship\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:29:35","slug":"open-source-doest-not-imply-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/open-source-doest-not-imply-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source does not imply dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dave Winer&#8217;s piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2007\/04\/05\/theTheoryOfTwitter.html#p6\">The theory of Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In open source communities they call the imbalance a benevolent dictatorship. Far from being a perfect democracy some people imagine open source to be, actually a project sinks or swims based on how good the central decision-maker is. Again, people complain about the A-list, but that&#8217;s okay, work gets done over the objections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, not all open source projects are dictatorships.   Apache, Eclipse, and Subversion are examples of prominent open source projects whose governance model is not a dictatorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dave Winer&#8217;s piece on The theory of Twitter In open source communities they call the imbalance a benevolent dictatorship. Far from being a perfect democracy some people imagine open source to be, actually a project sinks or swims based on how good the central decision-maker is. Again, people complain about the A-list, but that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[146,67,134],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phUVc-I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}