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Good point
Actually, you highlight a good reason where Whitehurst's comparison stands true, albeit not in the way he intended: he states that the marketing of the idol winner was cheaper than the marketing of Britney Spears, yet was just as effective. I'd dispute the "just as effective" contention here.

The winners of American Idol over the past few years have, with a couple exceptions (Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood) failed to become well marketed outside the group of people that "developed" their careers in the first place. Many people who have never watched American Idol (or haven't watched the seasons that these singers won) aren't aware of their existence, let alone buy their music.

In much the same way, a large number of Open Source projects haven't really found a large audience outside their core development community (OpenBravo is a good example - also a good example of what happens when you get techies trying to build an accounting program).
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