Darrell Rene Dupas wrote: > no it isnt flame bait but it is newbie bait! Not if you read it correctly. Try again. > there is an good discussion on this very topic at the following url > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ I was talking about Debian policy and procedures, not general open-source practice, with which I am sufficiently familiar. Craig