I found this interesting post while reading some historical documents, so I submitted it to HN. It seems that most people have missed the point. I think the poi

I found this interesting post while reading some historical documents, so I submitted it to HN. It seems that most people have missed the point. I think the point is: while The Cathedral and the Bazaar was a good campaign pamphlet and a general overview of FOSS development, but ESR's attempt of using his fetchmail as an example was arguably the greatest flaw of the book ("to such an extent that it could damage the Open Source movement"). From a technical perspective, fetchmail had numerous problems and security vulnerabilities. ESR was also criticized for mismanaging the project by putting it in "maintenance mode" early and refusing to accept patches that could address those issues. After a group of new maintainers had taken over the project, one of the first things they did was to systematically eliminate countless buffer and integer overflows from the program.