Ciencia y brujería

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It’s the right way to do things. I compare it to science vs. witchcraft.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people results and building on top of them.In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is likewitchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out.

The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can’t have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to haveeverybody share in knowledge.

Linus Torvalds.