Ramon,

>It's a good fear to have, but I think it's wrong

So, do you think it's a good, or a wrong fear?

>Have you read the paper called "the cathedral and the bazaar" ?

Yes, I have.

>It isn't the quality of programming alone which makes open-source so
>succesfull

Beg your pardon? What else then? Media hype? Bugtracking you are talking
about is one of the parts of development process, that ensures code quality,
making open source products usefull. I'm not talking about success, or
popularity, in fact. I'm like any other home user concentrated on `doing
things'. Just these things can be slightly weird.

>BTW I still consider myself to be one of the kiddies although I know what a 3NF>is............

Looks like I must explain myself. I didn't mean age or anything. Kiddies is a
shorthand of `skript kiddies', those bad boys using intrusion and monitoring
tools to deface websites and do DoS, barely having an idea on how and why
said tools work. The worst enemy is ignorance.
If you know normal forms and other boring things, you aren't a kiddie as I
understand the word. Your geek then, indeed ;)
Think about sport. Cool teams aren't that because they let everyone in. New
players must first show themselves before a coach or a manager even look at
them.
Also, whether it's open, closed or half that, it is going to be a commercial
enterprise. Why when others are hunting down brilliant brains, we must be
picking every John and Jack? It's much easier to peer-review the code written
by someone who you know and trust than to track down bugs and backdoors left
by occasional guests.


Edward V. POPKOV
Independent Developer

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