Open Source Centricity

[lief-erickson]

I think it's worth adding a risk list as well.

Risk:
Open source projects can become stale as contributors move to other projects out of boredom, apathy, or the next cool thing.

For example, the DITA Open Toolkit has just a handful of core contributors, but the number of commercial companies that rely on it are numerous and (appear to) exploit the work of the volunteer core developers without contributing back to the project. Not every project will suffer this circumstance, but some might. The community does not benefit, but only the users of the commercial products.

Just because something is open source does not mean that everyone has access to all of the super cool modifications or updates.