I am a wannabe, in the sense that I can't go to college yet and become "professional", but I have written about 80k lines. And not silly lines, I am talking about mostly C/C++ and some, yet not much, Assembly. I obviously don't care about (X)HTML, PHP, Javascript and all others...
With that said, my work has been mostly in personal (and sometimes useless) libraries, some small patches to the Free Software community, and my own Game Engines, encryption algorithms and Chats.

Yes, I know I talked too much about me. Let me shoot myself now. =)

Please mod this up, it really pictures the go'old script-kiddies in its own way...

FLAMEBAIT

It's a precipitated generalization.

Show it only Porn-alike text. Let's see what it learns...

SIX MINUTES? God, are you telling me that I have 3hours36 minutes GMT to live? And you forgot to tell me you insensitive clod!

You sir, depress me. Don't forget to send postcards from IE-land.

Placebo waves.

I would like you to support your arguments with proof, instead of just saying things like those. And I'm talking about REAL and MEANINGFUL proof. Also, check http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1512316&cid=30780998 for the best comment to this article.

...to hell with it.

And I was here banging the computers to get them to work faster! Damn /.! Next time, tell me before you eat up another server!

Of course Google knows what it's dong! How on earth would we insist on having ALL of our private data on THEIR cloud?

Not really, that is a research, I am looking for the real thing. Glasses which point me to the G-Spot right there at that time. Also, I'm very fond of experimentalism....maybe we could have a go at it, let's start with finding it first!

Now if only there was something like that for the G-Spot. A perfectly overlayed G-Spot. Damn, I'd buy one!

It is true to some degree that a large open-source project cannot be held without a leader. Because the purpose of a leader is not only that of motivating, but also that of guiding the members of the group. If there is no Leader, and I'm talking about a good leader with decent leadership skills (be those whatever you wish), there can be no direction to follow. This leads to:

1. Excessive group "conformism". That is: people will always be in agreement because they will most likely create internal and implicit leaders, yet being afraid to expose their opinions, even if done unconsciously -- this is common in group development, and it may be surpassed later on.
2. An elevated degree of entropy, meaning that everyone will have different opinions and will not find a way to work towards a goal together, thus failing to produce any important outcome.

Sure, like I mentioned, there are *implicit* leaders, but without the sense of a hierarchy. But we need hierarchy, to create different types of authority, so that we can moderate our behaviour and even sacrifice ourselves for the well-being of the group as a whole. Sure we can also do that to cover our ass and prevent getting thrown out of a project/job, but that is effectively positive for the group.
Look at most big open-source projects, they rely on a well-defined leader, or set of leaders disposed in a hierarchical way. Heck, dump open-source projects and look at the real world, they fail without proper leadership, because a leader must motivate, direct towards a goal, sort out problems, among other things.

This does not mean that we need this particular leader!