> Is there any special reason to believe that closed source is any better? As many (most?) of us on HN are in some sense or another professional programmers I

> Is there any special reason to believe that closed source is any better? As many (most?) of us on HN are in some sense or another professional programmers I would think that would be an easy question to answer. In my opinion the vast bulk of closed source code suffers from exactly the same constraints. And most definitely there are vast quantities of quite execrable code in closed source programs. I've seen plenty and written some.