>> "Patches welcome."
>
> Oh, yes, that works great.
>
> Problem: Only programmers are comfortable with the program.
>
> Solution: Submit code.
>
> Yeah. Think about that one.

I suspect that the open source model can work - but only for the 
products that are so popular that there's a crapload of users trying it 
out, and a crapload of developers sufficiently motivated to fix the 
"boring" stuff.

Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/619/

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