Key insights:
- User generated improvements are better informed.
- Collective intelligence bears more leverage and needs less coordination
- Code velocity, committer reputation, user/vendor driven innovation, user activity, and corporate support are all metrics that can be used to evaluate the quality of an open source project.
- Foundations can help open source by being vendor neutral, enforcing a meritocracy, shielding developers, providing a vehicle for pooling resources, and creating ecosystems.
