Tanenbaum writes: »I think co-ordinating
1000 prima donnas living all over the world will be as easy as
herding cats... If Linus wants to keep control of the official version,
and a group of eager beavers want to go off in a different direction,
the same problem arises. (...) Anyone who says you can have a lot
of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of
code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software
project.« Torvalds answers: »Just so that nobody takes his guess
for the full thruth, here's my standing on 'keeping control', in 2
words (three?): I won't.«