Shiny Software and Pebbles on the Cairn

Here's an important point that needs making from time to time to encourage newcomers to participate in open projects:

No one takes contributions to an Open Source project and regards them as "substandard". They are simply contributions of varying quality and use.

Be it ne'er so small, a pebble on the cairn raises the cairn: and so it is with contributions to open source and the other opens. Indeed, this is one of many (interrelated) reasons why openness is so powerful.