Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:34:49 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000? |
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, J. Dow wrote:
> From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > > > > Please check out this article. Looks like microsoft know open source is the > > > thing of the future. I would consider that it is a begining step for full > > > blown GPL!!!! > > > > Oh sure > > > > Maybe 1200 people > > > > "Users are prohibited from amending" > > > > Sorry but Linus had > 1200 people able to modify his code in 1992 > > So did BillyG. The difference is that BillyG's were all overworked hackers > that were on the MS campus under BillyG's whip^H^H^H^Hpay. I treated that > as proof that you need WAY more than that many monkeys to generate something > stable and workable, if you adopted the Mongol hordes programming style. > > BillyG HAS thousands changing the source code. He pays them to do it. > Linus has far fewer actually changing the source code if I read this > list correctly. Experience suggests this is as it should be. Even in > coding "too many cooks spoil the broth."
True (afaikt). A major difference is that those few who actually make changes have to defend their changes in an open forum. They can't do a half-assed job (intentionally or otherwise) and have it not be noticed.
We have a lot more people contributing to quality control and providing input for designers than actual designers.
-Mike
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