Re: [discuss] Still looking for good reasons for open source

2005-12-11 Thread Chad Smith
On 12/11/05, Henrik Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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). oh, well then, yes, I'd say that there probably haven't

Re: [discuss] Still looking for good reasons for open source

2005-12-11 Thread Henrik Sundberg
2005/12/11, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 12/11/05, Henrik Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > To me this sounds like: > > Just a few volunteers have contributed to OOo. > > That is not many eyeballs. > > Therefore "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is not valid for > > O

Re: [discuss] Still looking for good reasons for open source

2005-12-11 Thread Chad Smith
On 12/11/05, Henrik Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me this sounds like: > Just a few volunteers have contributed to OOo. > That is not many eyeballs. > Therefore "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is not valid for > OOo. > Therefore "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

Re: [discuss] Still looking for good reasons for open source

2005-12-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 12:25:21 PM +0100, Henrik Sundberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2005/11/9, Andrew Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I think it's obvious to anyone that such ideas as "with enough > > eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is something between wildly > > misleading and utter crap. It c

Re: [discuss] Still looking for good reasons for open source

2005-12-11 Thread Henrik Sundberg
2005/11/9, Andrew Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think it's obvious to anyone > that such ideas as "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is > something between wildly misleading and utter crap. It certainly doesn't > apply to OOo. Assume, for the sake of argument, that OOo's Marketing > pro

Re: [discuss] Still looking for good reasons for open source

2005-11-10 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Some more recent writing: http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/11/open_source_lev.html http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/willinsky/index.html Also, it does not appear that the speakers and attendees to http://www.osbc.com/ (last week in Boston) need to be convinced. If y

[discuss] Still looking for good reasons for open source

2005-11-09 Thread Andrew Brown
Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Then i wonder if this is the correct forum for your query? 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