https://marco.org/2008/01/04/if-you-want-a-largest-lesson-from-open-source
If you want a largest lesson from open source, here’s mine: trust decentralization over centralization, voluntarism over coercion, bottom-up over top-down, adaptation over planning, openness over secrecy, practice over ideology, and markets over politics. Freedom works. Now go do it!
— Eric S. Raymond (via Told or Known)