> I was told, "Because you can't trust anyone else's code. It's better to write everything from scratch so you know it's right". I'm reminded of ESR's paraphra

> I was told, "Because you can't trust anyone else's code. It's better to write everything from scratch so you know it's right". I'm reminded of ESR's paraphrasing of Linus' Law regarding eyeball count and bug depth. Ten haphazard proprietary implementations are not more reliable than one battle-tested open implementation.