Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Questioning Linus's Law...

[roy.evison]

---- Tim Dobson <address@hidden> wrote: 
> A Microsoft program manager just wrote a post questioning one of the 
> almost unquestioned tenets of open source development: that given enough 
> eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. Are they?
> 
> Post:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhernan/archive/2010/02/13/microsoft-s-many-eyeballs-and-the-security-development-lifecycle.aspx
> 
> Community fallout: 
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/16/0151226/Are-All-Bugs-Shallow-Questioning-Linuss-Law?art_pos=4
> 
> Thoughts anyone?
> Thoughts and I have but few:

it begins to sound like many are getting stuck on a philosophical nugget, i.e., 
quality of analysis verses democracy. Do you count one person's opinion greater 
than many others that work in that area despite they may have flown their 
colours beforehand.

Roy.   
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