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Nobody to be taken serious has ever thought or said this Linus Torvalds is nobody to be taken seriously?
by kyllo 12y ago
Nobody to be taken serious has ever thought or said this
Linus Torvalds is nobody to be taken seriously?
- stormbrew 12y agoI don't think Linus ever said it. I'm not sure he even agrees with it. Eric S. Raymond named it after him because of Linux. That said, Eric S. Raymond didn't say the quoted either. He said that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", which is a much less bold claim (imo, at least) than that open source converges towards zero bugs over time.
- kyllo 12y agoWell it never meant "there are no bugs in open source code" over any length of time. It just means that if a project has enough eyeballs on it, bugs will be squashed quickly. But how many eyeballs is "enough"? Obviously OpenSSL didn't have enough. Does glibc?