On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Michael Haupt wrote:
> I never thought those communities were *so* small given the relevance
> of Rails and Ruby. Wow.

Clay Shirky has been commenting on this since 2003. Contributions to
any open source project follows the same power law distribution.

That is the power of open source: The fact that someone makes only one
commit to Squeak trunk ever, is of no importance.

Whether that fix was a *good* and *useful* fix is what is important. A
lot of value is to be had in the long tail :-)

For more, watch this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
Read this: http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

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