I think I've been dancing around the architecture of the problem for years, but never had the guts to pursue it. Because I know what my core competencies are, and none of them involve the design of it. THE disruptive technology that FoRK has been pushing for in the last four years doesn't requires legions of developers designing and testing and verifying like in Eric Raymond's Bazaar. Less is more. The smaller the design team, the better.
Open collaboration is bad.
Because once you let it out into the world, you can't go back and change it. Innovation requires only the successful arrangement of technologies that already exist. The disruption comes from the smaller, cheaper, and simpler, not from the bigger, more expensive, and more complex extensions. It's not for entertainment, although sometimes that happens. The point here isn't to break news bits, although sometimes that happens.