- I guess if you assume “open community” implicit in the term Community, you’d be resistant to closed ones,
- And the company community is not an open one to join,
- The open source community also accepts pull requests openly from anyone, but the committers authorized to merge them are not “openly participating organizations.
The higher the hurdle for participation, the easier it is to keep the concentration of people inside. On the other hand, it is one case where an organization that has tried to make an unspecified decision by vote gets stuck and dies.
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