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November 29, 2021 - April 4, 2022
Nobody should ever have to solve a problem twice.
There are even growing numbers of people who realize that hackers are often high-quality lover and spouse material.
An issue related to whether one can start projects from zero in the bazaar style is whether the bazaar style is capable of supporting truly innovative work. Some claim that, lacking strong leadership, the bazaar can only handle the cloning and improvement of ideas already present at the engineering state of the art, but is unable to push the state of the art. This argument was perhaps most infamously made by the Halloween Documents, http://www.opensource.org/halloween/,
Gangs don’t have breakthrough insights — even volunteer groups of bazaar anarchists are usually incapable of genuine originality, let alone corporate committees of people with a survival stake in some status quo ante. Insight comes from individuals.