For all the successes of open source, developers are painfully aware of where the model starts to break down. What happens when the de facto lead developer gets tired of doing all the work, or when different groups start to squabble and the project splinters? Say a bug appears but no one can be bothered to fix it. Maybe the core coders decide they just want to eat. The idea of open source transformed software development, making it cheaper, faster, more interactive, and often more secure and better engineered. But all these years later, it still doesn’t reliably pay the bills.
