Mailing the story:
The best helmsmen stand on shore
What most people are still unable to understand is that the FOSS community is the FOSS community. There is no central body that governs it. Bruce Byfield is completely unaware of this too. In his latest misguided rambling 'Open Source Projects and the Meritocracy Myth' he lists a number of major projects with paid developers. As if meritocracy is and should only be applied there.