'In programming, it is also common to refer to the NIH Syndrome as the tendency towards reinventing the wheel (reimplementing something that is already available) based on the flawed belief that in-house developments are inherently better suited, more secure or more controlled than existing implementations. This argument is accepted as flawed because wide usage is much more likely to uncover any existing defects than reimplementation. Even more, peer review of source code in the case of a Free Software or Open Source alternative tends to follow Linus' Law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"'
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