Love the tone, the brutal honesty and the refreshing view on such an interesting emerging topic. Must read for those interested in community building.
Hintjens provides a good framework for sustainable open source software communities. Highly recommend.
Not the best piece of social science, not the worst either. Granted, Hintjens was a computer scientist. Good guidelines for OSS communities. Too bad he didn't have enough time to do a more thorough monograph. Hintjens did a fine job with the time he had left, and, more importantly, was an significant practioner in building open communities online.
Try to build living, distributed systems.