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Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia
0-9a-f writes "Robert McHenry, one-time Editor in Chief of Encyclopædia Britannica, offers his thoughts on Wikipedia at Tech Central Station. While many Wikipedia zealots might discount his obvious bias outright, his broad argument is difficult to ignore. A million monkeys might eventually write Shakespeare, but how would they recognise it once they had?"
If you want a great open source operating system, you only need a handful of knowledgeable people.
If you want an operating system written by a million monkeys, you need a large corporate structure that doesn't require return on investment from any of the monkeys. The corporate structure would prevent the operating system from being great or open source. Of course, if you choose this path, you're likely to end up with a hokey operating system that looks good, and due to the creativity that monkeys frequently fail to exhibit, probably named after a trait of buildings that is commonly lacking in their monkey cube farms.