On: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

[VectorLock]

>I just don't think we have the communication tools to support productive collaboration between people who hardly ever meet.

How do Open Source projects achieve it?

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No real deadlines and mostly one or two developers max on any given improvement.

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And you work on things that you want to work on. If something is a hassle you punt and if people complain, what do you expect from free code?

How often does free software - and I mean no paid positions - compete with commercial software? OSS puts companies out of business (because it turns out people think some things should just be $0) but the projects that actually compete are a very small fraction, aren’t they?