Except you&#x27;re not Linus and you probably don&#x27;t have a cult like following for any work you produce.<p>Linus brought DVCS to the masses, but to pretend there wasn&#x27;t more at play than simply open sourcing a project and hoping it all works out is complete rubbish. People have families to feed. Closed source is not inherently evil.<p>It takes a unique situation to produce something like git that&#x27;s product is beyond the sum of the project itself.