I am a bit reluctant to repeat myself, but I can't see any mentioning of the sheer volume of code. It's more than 300.000 lines of code in the .c files of the

I am a bit reluctant to repeat myself, but I can't see any mentioning of the sheer volume of code. It's more than 300.000 lines of code in the .c files of the official tarball. My experience with code grown beyond >10⁵ LoC is that it forces you to monkey-patch around any bugs (or even features for that matter). Surely there's a Potterson's Law or something that describes the situation. In short: it's not the monkeys (quality), it's the volume of code. (Of course now we're getting in a chicken-egg situation.)