Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Core Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn writesthat the Bitcoin experiment has failed. "In a company, someonewho did not share the goals of the organisation would be dealt with in asimple way: by firing him. But Bitcoin Core is an open source project, nota company. Once the 5 developers with commit access to the code had beenchosen and Gavin [Andresen] had decided he did not want to be the leader,there was no procedure in place to ever remove one. And there was nointerview or screening process to ensure they actually agreed with theproject's goals." If Bitcoin is indeed failing as the article says,it's failing due to project governance issues rather than technical orregulatory problems.