> If you listen to people like Eric Raymond, open source is all about quality. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow", etc. I'm not a fan of ESR at all (he's a bit

> If you listen to people like Eric Raymond, open source is all about quality. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow", etc. I'm not a fan of ESR at all (he's a bit of a paranoid nutcase), but you are taking that way out of context here. The "given enough eyeballs" quote was about project leadership styles not software licensing. It was about empowering and accepting many contributors into a project (the bazaar) instead of having a small clique in charge of a project (the cathedral). > Or to put it another way: if Eric Raymond one days wakes up convinced that Open Source is technically inferior, he must drop it in order to remain consistent with his own justifications. ESR thought that attracting large contributor bases to projects was the key to improving quality. Not that Open Source automatically means better quality.