The article below provides very important point to consider when it comes to business strategy , decision making and leadership. It looks at how open source initiatives demand for a change in the leadership and decision making is done from profit or stakeholders gain to votes and views from contributors or in my own view those people who actually had contributed in the development of open source projects.

In my experience, some projects that I had worked with failed to achieve its goal simply because the views of those who had worked hard in the project had been ignored by managers that only focused to feel the stakeholders view.

Taking some of the learning point in the article below, open collaboration must be guided with clear intention to achieve the success of the project. And not to succumb to pressure from a small group of stakeholders.

I shall not dwindle too long... the article below explains it all.

The Promise (and Perils) of Open Collaboration

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