Lessons for software development

• Software development should be fun

• But some hierarchy is necessary

• Software projects run on social capital

• • Financial capital produces income
  • Social capital produces MBCA
  • • Mutually Beneficial Collective Action

• Social capital can be increased by fostering

• • An empowering, consensual process
  • Norms of reciprocal voluntary participation
  • • Debian tried paying some of its developers: bad move
  • Product differentiation