[alilleybrinker]

Mickos is quoted:

"The power of open source is not that we agree and get stuff done; it is that we disagree and get stuff done. That’s the true power when you have a governance model that allows people who have nothing in common to produce something in common."

Which is a nice sentiment; but open source is not a governance model! Open source is a licensing model, and can support any governance model alongside it. Open source projects can be consensus-based, authoritarian (Benevolent Dictator for Life), democratic, corporate, and more!

Maybe he meant "collaboration model," but again open source does not have to be collaborative. There are successful open source projects which do not accept contributions, like SQLite, for example.