Andrew Brown wrote:
It's not really a query. I'm thinking out loud. Ian Lynch made some good
points about OSS applications best understood as a strategic
collaboration between behemoths like IBM and SUN. But that's not how Eric
Raymond would see it.
Bingo! ESR's thesis was based on the
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://
Andrew Brown wrote:
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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 eye
