Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Dec 2005 20:16 UTC
"Of all the myths that have grown up around open source software, perhaps the most pervasive is Eric Raymond's aphorism that 'Many eyes make bugs shallow', suggesting that if lots of people can view a program's source code, they will find and fix its errors more quickly than commercial products whose code is jealously guarded. The only problem with this is that it's not true - certainly not in one of the flagship projects of open source, OpenOffice."
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OpenOffice.org is not a real open source project yet.
It looks like they opens up the project more and more, but it will most likely take some time. OpenOffice.org is developed in a closed way in the past. That is easy to see if you look at the code. This makes it harder for new developers to help.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 helped a lot, but it is still much work left to make it more open to new developers.