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-#@#
-Magic is real... unless declared integer.
-#@#
-System is up and running.
-#@#
-Open source thesis that thousand of eyes looking thu the code
-increases software quality is completely wrong. The amount of
-bugs per line of code is an universal constant. The bazaar
-model only achieves a quick bug turnover.