A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry