White Paper on Open Collaboration

Asking the Right Question

1. Why do people not collaborate on open source product development, if clearly the benefit is growing the pie for everybody?

Is that even the right question to ask? Maybe, why do people think they are collaborating, but are not really?

MJ Case

I had some breakthroughs on collaboration through coaching, in 2019. I got away from how do I have to do it, to how do we do it. Psychologically, the burden of Jesus lifts by saying this. It's enabled by full commitment to the answer, letting go of ego, and being vulnerable to saying that WE can do it, and that is based on full acceptance of post-scarcity thinking in that I believe firmly that there is more than enough for everybody. This is very logical from first principles, where absolutely no case can be made for scarcity, even if the population rises from few billion to one one trillion (I don't advocate that).