[mden]

Great list, two nits.

"Open Source means it has fewer bugs and is more secure."

Maybe not in the absolute meaning of that expression, but I find it true when you only consider the higher quality open source projects, e.g. say the top 10k open source projects. The code that most professional software developers produce at big and small companies alike makes me in awe that their final products work as well as they do.

"Being able to program is the most important aspect of being a good software engineer."

Ehh, I would say this is true. Certainly not the only aspect but if you can't code then you just end up being someone playing office politics all day trying to hide that fact.

[cperciva]

I find it true when you only consider the higher quality open source projects, e.g. say the top 10k open source projects.

How are you defining "top" here? The best quality open source projects are not the most widely used projects -- if anything, I find that the correlation tends to be negative.