"But the point I was trying to make with those 3 articles still stands: that people who join communities for community's sake are not necessarily only drags on, disrupters of the system. They provide something like a dampening baffle that traps and eliminates the noise of the extremists, the purposeful missionaries. In fact, without _enough_ of that sort of "middling" or "joiner", a project is more at risk when/if extremists fail to cohere. And I think this is true in open source projects as well as proprietary ones."
Right, but from the missionary's point of view, the truth is out there, and if one project dies another will fill its place.. It is the truth that matters. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
