Fair enough, the open source software development model is no different in reality from the free software development model generally speaking. It goes back to

Fair enough, the open source software development model is no different in reality from the free software development model generally speaking. It goes back to ESR's The Cathedral and the Bazaar and is what he deems "the bazaar model" or "bazaar style" before him, Larry Augustin, and Bruce Perens (if memory serves) went on to coin the phrase "open source". Even if you don't necessarily agree with ESR (I see him in a similar vein as RMS fwiw), his thoughts on software development models have generally speaking, been proven true.