Google Defends Open Source from ‘Poisonous People’
Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman, two long-time open source gurus now plying their trade at Google believe in open source projects that maintain a small “bus factor.” That would be the number of contributors who could be hit by a bus before a project collapses. A simple means of maintaining a small bus factor is baring names from source code.
Original post by Candace Savino
