Comment by johnea

People do love their drama don't they 8-)

Regarding the point of "community" being difficult to manage in "open source" projects, I would argue managing a large group of developers on any project is difficult and full of drama.

I'm personally not an advocate of the "open source" obfuscation term myself, but the public license of the linux kernel has little to do with the drama.

Maybe the fact that linux developers have some kind of say at all, as opposed to some proprietary dev projects where every decision is handled by fiat (and Linus has certainly served this role at times), causes it to have more drama.

But no matter what model is followed, people do love their drama, and a large dev group is a social activity regardless of the licensing of the software itself.

Its like every social issue ever: the thing all participants have in common is that they are all humans...