Danie Roux wrote:
> 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

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Folks, this truly is a must-watch.

Cheers,
   - Andreas