Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Dec 2005 20:16 UTC
"Of all the myths that have grown up around open source software, perhaps the most pervasive is Eric Raymond's aphorism that 'Many eyes make bugs shallow', suggesting that if lots of people can view a program's source code, they will find and fix its errors more quickly than commercial products whose code is jealously guarded. The only problem with this is that it's not true - certainly not in one of the flagship projects of open source, OpenOffice."
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2005-06-29
Agreed. For that matter an office suite is made up of a lot of code and not one is bug free. OpenOffice.org has it's bugs, as does MS Office and every other office suite out there I can think of.
One of the reasons I use OpenOffice.org and StarOffice is because I encountered bugs in MS Office that are more annoying to me than the ones I encountered in OpenOffice.org and StarOffice so far.