Comment by pnako
5 years ago
My argument is: if a complex project like the Linux kernel, or MySQL, or CMake, or pretty much any large piece of open source software, can be written by remote teams, I don't see what's specific about typical corporate or start-up technology that would prevent that.
The difference is that, the developers are unpaid for the Linux Kernel.
Not true at all. In 2017, only 7.7% of contributions were unpaid [1], and it's been dropping for many years: "from 14.6 percent of contributions in 2012 to just 11.8 percent" in 2015 [2]
[1] https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/
[2] https://www.cio.com/article/2909736/who-s-behind-linux-now-a...
Maybe I should have been clearer. The payments to the contributors and the targets of their respective companies are not always identical. A team from redhat contributing to the kernel might not be remote and will have their own performance measurement stratergies.
Which makes wasting money on meetings over comms through text even more glaring.