So worse... a committee.

dylan604 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A committee from the beginning would definitely prevent something from really ever starting. Could you imagine Linus working under a committee to get Linux running?

At some point, you do have people that need to step back. If you turn it over to another single person, they could pivot and "ruin" the product. By turning it over to a committee, hopefully, any ruinous ideas get overruled. At least in theory

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lapcat 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's an open source project. What exactly are you expecting?

Keep in mind that every for-profit publicly-owned corporation has many shareholders, as well as a board of directors, which is, gasp, a committee!

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jshen 6 hours ago | parent [-]

yes, but they typically hire a singular CEO to drive a cohesive vision and strategy with the check that they can fire the CEO at anytime.

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lapcat 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, and Mastodon has an executive director (as I already mentioned), which is basically the nonprofit equivalent of a CEO.

	▲	jshen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure that's what that role was intended to do.