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The basic premise behind open source: given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

The free software community openly distributes their source code with the goal that if enough people are critical of it, some of them will fix the problems with it. Or at the very least, critique the software package, point out its flaws, &c. This is called the economic principle of abundance. Ironically enough, even though it's free, it does not imply that you get what you pay for.



E R 2000-06-13