To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified and you had better not use it anymore. Raymond's personal sci-fi library is 7 feet high and 25 feet long. Raymond is the first person to tell you that he hates mobs.
Mob behavior is usually hideous.
The Linux kernel was written by a Finnish college student, Linus Torvalds, who handed it over to a community of 40,000 independent programmers on the Net to do with it what they would. To Raymond's astonishment, the mob did something good. Up till then, he had been cranking out code with the belief that software projects had to be contained and held to precise objectives. But that's not what happened. The Linux operating system was more stable, structured and useful than Raymond could have imagined.