It's about time people started ignoring the few headliners and realised some basic facts about open source.
Trust?
Yes you can trust that the new version will break the old version.
You can trust that the documentation will either be unreadable or wrong or both.
You can trust that your code additions will need to be rewritten each time a new version comes out, no matter how closely you followed the guidelines.
You can trust that they got the most passionate programmers, just not the best, The best are getting paid.
You can trust that there will be a flame war and a fork a few times a month.
You can trust that you will need at least one programmer who's job is to keep the rather ricketty boat afloat.
Cynical? I prefer realist. Unlike most of the people fawning over open source, I actually use it and modify it. If you don't have the money to buy modern sophisticated, well-tested software, then you make do with open source. Sometimes it works, sometimes you need to do extensive modification to get it to work and a lot of the time it's a terrible waste of time and money. Sometimes you actually find a well written, well documented piece of software that justifies you selecting open source, but that event is few and far between.
So by all means use it, but go into it with your eyes wide open.
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