Star If This Suite's a Success, Why Is It So buggy?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Dec 2005 20:16 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source "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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RE: Not a good example
by on Fri 9th Dec 2005 23:33 UTC in reply to "Not a good example"

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I would even discount software written by small organizations internally but released as open source.

for example... OpenOffice, Mozilla products (based in Netscape), KDE (or at least QT), etc., right?

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