You're right that it's just a heuristic. Open source can also lead to cargo-culting[1] sets of instructions for tightly circumscribed tasks: http://akkartik.nam

You're right that it's just a heuristic. Open source can also lead to cargo-culting[1] sets of instructions for tightly circumscribed tasks: http://akkartik.name/about http://akkartik.name/about [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult