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Originally Posted by EricH
There is a difference between open for scrutiny and open source.
If I put a document in a PDF and send it to you for you to review, that is open for scrutiny. If, however, I simply put the same document in GDocs and send you the link--with full editing permissions--that is open source.
In code, open source could be pretty bad, DEPENDING on a number of factors. Particularly, comments and other documentation, work breakup, and even "code styles".
But having the code open for scrutiny--that might help.
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Pretty much this. Because the FMS has to be built and fixed on a deadline, an open source model, where you are depending on people who have no reason to meet an arbitrary schedule or work on "uninteresting" bugs to work to a schedule and fix the uninteresting bugs.