""" New Findings Shake Up Open-Source Debate By Mike Martin NewsFactor Network September 18, 2003 1:26PM Our model "shows that closed-source projects are always slower to converge to a bug-free state than bazaar open-source projects," say theoretical physicists Damien Challet and Yann Le Du. """ http://sci.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=22319 Which is, I think, relevant to my sense of the growing significance of Python to the scientific community. The related academic community. Own of the researchers on the project is a research fellow in theoretical physics, at Oxford. And a Python user - though the article doesn't mention Python directly. I know this, because (I am proud to say) he contacted me regarding PyGeo. Which is why/how I came across the article. Art