Sounds interesting.
Though technically, from a group process perspective, I don’t think it qualifies as leaderless. Torvald et al provide some sense of leadership as do others. imho.
But then, I come from a training that decrees that there is
NO SUCH THING
as a leaderless group. And all my experience has demonstrated that’s abundantly true.
One will surface sooner or later and usually sooner.
Well yes- but it’s a natural process, leaders rise to the top and are recognized by the group. They aren’t artifically appointed and put into some heirarchy.
Much the same way FR works- we tend to trust certain people by the nature of their posts and history.
That book is well worth the read, on a variety of different levels.