I like the metaphor that comes up when you think of OSM as software. Or Wikipedia.<p>npm is also similar to OSM in a way, except somewhat clunkier. People are always building little adapters, fixing up compatibility issues, etc.<p>Linux distributions like Arch or Nix are also kind of similar. Lots of eyeballs and fingertips, people patching up different things, rapid adaptation, etc.<p>Random thought: In the next decade, AIs will start to contribute more to open source projects. All the work being done on testing, verification, proving, defining interfaces, automatic formal logic, and so on, combined with work on artificial creativity, combined with more and more machine power. Pretty fascinating to speculate about.