Jon’s Radio, In search of the JBoss Pet Store:

That extra touch is called finishing work, and it’s the kind of thing that, too often, we in open source don’t do well. I’m not sure why, but my guess is that in the hierarchy of needs, finishing work provides little positive reinforcement to open source developers. [Zope Dispatches]

Paul Everitt made this same point at the OSCOM conference I recently attended. It’s a profound issue for open source.

I couldn’t agree more.