[icebraining]

The obvious counter-example is OpenSSL: used everywhere, yet survived based on volunteer work for years. I would be surprised if there weren't plenty more in the myriad of dependencies used by those well-known projects.

[zantana]

Yes, my feeling always has been open source works best when the developers are the users since they feel the pain and see what needs to be changed.

[fourthark]

barely survived, and then Heartbleed