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Hmm.
There aren't many decent codebases out there, for a reasonably demanding definition of 'decent'. I've not seen any Diku derivative that wasn't a horrible mess, and the general scheme of polling and ticks is horrible. Not to mention the fact they're nearly all in C (which is fine for those who like playing with pointers and fixing memory leaks rather than adding gameplay logic), full of hard-coded choices, and rely on non-standard data formats, often incompatible across very similar versions. There are some nice codebases out there but they are generally unfinished because it's just 1 guy working alone.
Coding on OSS is not a 'masochistic' option. Once installed, KDevelop is not significantly worse than Visual Studio 6 in any way that I can discern. And Source Safe is no better than CVS (which can also be managed by KDevelop). So what's missing? I don't want to get into an argument over open source vs. proprietary software, but I certainly don't think the quality or usability gap is as big as you make out. Visual Studio and Borland C++ Builder are just wrappers around console mode compilers too.
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