>> At this point, we've heard enough "rags to riches" stories in programming that it becomes difficult to dismiss this as simply "survivorship bias".
I like the rest of the article but this statement is disturbing. There are plenty of great open source projects which never got off the ground in terms of popularity.
Quality is not necessarily correlated with popularity.
I like the rest of the article but this statement is disturbing. There are plenty of great open source projects which never got off the ground in terms of popularity.
Quality is not necessarily correlated with popularity.