On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Razer <[1]rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:

     On 09/28/2016 10:31 AM, Sean Lynch takes the words right out of my
     mouth:
     > The Internet is starting to feel a lot more like feudalism,
     What I stated a while back about my reasons for never getting
     involved
     in the computer industry as a way to earn my bucks... I don't get
     along
     with fewdal punkz and hypercompetitive-hyperagressives reel well. So
     what did they do? They FUCKED the whole 'Fucking thing'.

    Assuming you're trying to build a large, effective organization, how
   do you do it without some level of internal competition? I've worked
   for some relatively touchy-feely companies (*cough* Linden Lab) that
   prided themselves on being "flat", but eventually I realized they were
   just keeping all the politics quiet and subtle. Meanwhile, people
   worked on "fun" stuff and added neat but unimportant features to Second
   Life while neglecting its stability and maintainability, with the
   ultimate result that instead of trying to improve it, New Improved
   Corporate Linden Lab has decided (probably correctly) to do a complete
   rewrite in the form of Sansar. CouchIO had similar problems trying to
   essentially be a distributed open source project with money.
   But maybe it's not necessary to build large organizations in the first
   place? I'd love to believe this. Perhaps something like the contract
   market in Earthweb is the way to go.

References

   1. mailto:rayzer@riseup.net