Henrik Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>> I'm slightly confused by what you've said here. I think that "eyeballs" >> refers to people looking at the program. OOo has *plenty* of eyeballs. >> According to the Stats page, Over 53 million sets of eyeballs. >> http://stats.openoffice.org/index.html > > If an eyeball should be used to make a bug shallow, it must (most > often) be directed towards the code. I therefor agree with the way > Andrew counts eyeballs (or pairs of them). > > Well, you're both right. I mean that eyeballs finding bugs does not translate to eyeballs capable of fixing them. There may be some comment by Eric Raymond about this over on my blog. I can't remember. In any case, his argument was -- I think -- that users don't have eyeballs that matter for the improvement of code. Which is the whole problem. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
