Newsfactor: Is Open Source Superior?

“Can you improve your IQ? Can you improve it by a factor of
thousands? That might seem like the pipe dream of some overzealous
geneticist. But in truth, it’s the promise–and perhaps the
power–of the open source movement, where two heads are better than
one and two thousand are better than two.

“Just ask an open source advocate about the strength of his
community, and he’ll tell you that it is the
community–the mere fact that so many coders and critics can
examine the code, each adding his own knowledge to the project.
With open source, the strength of the community is the community
itself…”

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