> Finally: McDonalds IS good. I don't eat there often, but they provide a consistently satisfactory experience for their customers. There's a reason you can find McDonalds nearly everywhere on the planet.

McDonald's is consistent, predictable, cheap, generic, and ubiquitous. Sometimes those are good qualities. "Good enough" is usually good enough, after all.

Regionally, there are a half-dozen choices that I'll take over McD's: Less iconic world-wide, but as cheap or cheaper, just as consistent, and more pleasing to the palate. I think that's closer to what they were advocating: Not necessarily building it in-house, but also not taking popularity as a reliable indicator of code quality (beyond a bar of minimum acceptability).