Yep, I think you have all the companies right. Some of the volunteering is individual (more than you might think), and some is corporate, but no one company runs the show.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that everyone pitches in where they can and we all try to coordinate along the way, in contrast to a normal "managed" development effort where deliverables are identified, effort is estimated, schedules are set, resources are allocated, tasks are doled out, and one or more people oversee the execution against a detailed, published plan.
That kind of management stuff doesn't seem to go over so well in the open source world. You'd think we were killing kittens or something
Anyways, nice talking to you.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that everyone pitches in where they can and we all try to coordinate along the way, in contrast to a normal "managed" development effort where deliverables are identified, effort is estimated, schedules are set, resources are allocated, tasks are doled out, and one or more people oversee the execution against a detailed, published plan.
That kind of management stuff doesn't seem to go over so well in the open source world. You'd think we were killing kittens or something
Anyways, nice talking to you.
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