<i>&gt; If you listen to people like Eric Raymond, open source is all about quality. &quot;Many eyes make all bugs shallow&quot;, etc.</i><p>I&#x27;m not a fan of ESR at all (he&#x27;s a bit of a paranoid nutcase), but you are taking that way out of context here.<p>The &quot;given enough eyeballs&quot; quote was about project leadership styles not software licensing. It was about empowering and accepting many contributors into a project (the bazaar) instead of having a small clique in charge of a project (the cathedral).<p><i>&gt; Or to put it another way: if Eric Raymond one days wakes up convinced that Open Source is technically inferior, he must drop it in order to remain consistent with his own justifications.</i><p>ESR thought that attracting large contributor bases to projects was the key to improving quality. Not that Open Source automatically means better quality.