This little exercise reminds us that the dysfunction seen inside corporations are just as easily present in open source communities. In the end, management hold

This little exercise reminds us that the dysfunction seen inside corporations are just as easily present in open source communities. In the end, management holds the keys to what gets checked in and what doesn't. The curious twist in this whole tale is that PHP- because of its history of being insecure- actually had a hardened distribution, while Rails didn't. This type of smugness creates its own karma, as evidenced by the red-faced hack of a premier RoR site.