[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

> On 7/2/24 9:51 PM, sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au wrote:
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> > I’ve never seen a large Open Source project succeed when attempting to use modern “Project Management” techniques.
> > 
>
> Managing an open source project is like herding a pack of alpha male tomcats with their own agendas that you can't fire.
>
>

I think this is true only of the large projects. As Clem has argued,
when there's a single strong leader, it's different (Linus, Guido van
Rossum, bash and gawk are such examples).

Arnold