Frida Ghitis: A successful open-source project, fetchmail, was run as a deliberate test of the surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. Ghitis argues that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, and suggests productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents. He says Linux overturned much of what he thought I knew about software development, and it was a surprise to see how it works in a bazaar style. He suggests some aphorisms about effective software development in the Linux world.”]
Source: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html