they need to think of themselves as stewards and not owners.
This is an important idea that a lot don't seem to get.
Of cource, if you're in (US) business, the norm is to be an owner, often with a PR veneer of steward or faux folksiness, and most savvy people understand that.
(Junior engineers are to be forgiven for not yet understanding that the megacorp or aspiring techbro-ionaire is often trying to trick the kids to get into the back of the ice cream truck of vendor lock-in.)
But in many other contexts, people rightly expect steward. Including in many ostensibly community projects, in which there are very different reasonable expectations.
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This is an important idea that a lot don't seem to get.
Of cource, if you're in (US) business, the norm is to be an owner, often with a PR veneer of steward or faux folksiness, and most savvy people understand that.
(Junior engineers are to be forgiven for not yet understanding that the megacorp or aspiring techbro-ionaire is often trying to trick the kids to get into the back of the ice cream truck of vendor lock-in.)
But in many other contexts, people rightly expect steward. Including in many ostensibly community projects, in which there are very different reasonable expectations.