TheCabal's Journal: Open Source debates

One argument that always comes up with the Open Source crowd is "you have the source code so you can fix any holes, extend it, etc,etc,etc...". This point brilliantly shows teh nearsightedness that a lot of opensource people have: I'm a hell of a packet monkey, and even a decent programmer from time to time, but what the hell use is having the source code to me? I don't know C, C++ or any other language that is used to write these applications. I wouldn't know a hole in the software even if it was pointed out to me. much less be able to fix/extend the software. So what good is it if I have the source? And if I can't do this, what makes you expect that Grandma and Uncle Bob will be able to?