<This is the way many volunteer-driven Free Software projects are run too. Often, they get handed over from one team or person to another. Linus Torvalds is the benevolent dictator when it comes to maintaining the kernel. Richard Stallman remains the founder and chairman of the Free Software Foundation.>[FN, April 26]
Check this out: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=89284 Open Source goes beyond software [V. Sadagopan] "What is interesting is that the open source philosophy has deeply influenced many other segments of human endeavour."