Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Questioning Linus's Law...

[Leslie I'Anson]

Furthermore,

its about diversity, and by allowing more people the possibility to
review code promotes diversity. If development and code review is the
exclusive responsibility of a specific collection of individuals (i.e.
Microsoft employees) what happens to this diversity and all of the
benefits associated with it?

On 16/02/2010, Leslie I'Anson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I did not realise that Joseph Goebbels' had descents over at
> Microsoft. It does seem to sense though given the whole fascism thing.
>
> In my opinion, I believe that the fundamental difference between the
> free software movement and Microsoft, is that Microsoft's pays people
> to write such unsuccinct dribble and, perhaps more importantly, it is
> within their interests to. Whereas we, on the other hand, tend to let
> our actions speak for themselves. So, following on from that line of
> thought, I don't recall free and open source software carrying the
> same reputation for insecurity.
>
> Also, it surprises me (or rather it doesn't) how conveniently, not to
> mention quickly, Microsoft and it's people are willing to forget the
> past.
>
> L.
>
> On 16/02/2010, Tim Dobson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> A Microsoft program manager just wrote a post questioning one of the
>> almost unquestioned tenets of open source development: that given enough
>> eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. Are they?
>>
>> Post:
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhernan/archive/2010/02/13/microsoft-s-many-eyeballs-and-the-security-development-lifecycle.aspx
>>
>> Community fallout:
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/16/0151226/Are-All-Bugs-Shallow-Questioning-Linuss-Law?art_pos=4
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
>>
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