Comment by nudpiedo

Although I appreaciate almost all opinion articles and videos posted by Rich, what I read here is that Rich seems to see his project about himself which fits his previous behave as Clojure's Dictator For Life. In other words, he could never remove himself from the equation or make clojure an independent long standing self directed project.

In general terms of OS project, I think the first premise is already flawed. What if there were open source projects meant to satisfy their users or public? Or just iwth very different goals than yours? Do you even think that software is just finished when it is released? that fanbase should be allowed? What if Rich itself is the main bottle neck for his own masterpiece?

   The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to
   work are people who run projects, and the scope of their 
   entitlement extends only to their own projects.

Now, he should answer this own questions and make his own logic for his own project. I personally always saw open source as complex as a society is; as complex as an MMO game game can be. (including actors such fanbase, devs, sponsors, investors), etc.