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Conway’s law states that a system design will mimic its organization structure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

What happens when a project moves from a being a byproduct of collaboration and dog fooding to become its own purpose?

Will they lose the very character that gave open source projects the magic that they wield?

Will they become yet another product made with money as its purpose rather than being built as part of real world use cases?

Important aspect when we strive to make OSS sustainable