OsCommerce: A Lesson in Unmaintainable Code?

I used OSCommerce for one project. Never again.

Open Source doesn't mean best code. Open Source projects are mostly the fiefdoms of the founders of a project. If you get a good founder you get a good project. Good doesn't have to mean good at code, a good leader can find good coders.

Sometimes, though, Open Source means survival of the fittest. This project is not the easiest to use or maintain. That causes people to go elsewhere. Well the value leaves, so does people's interest. Open Source isn't a corporation, after all, no-one is paying anyone to do dumb stuff all day.

I worked on OSC for almost a year and a half. Thank goodness for layoffs.