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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ linus's-law on SWiK linus's-law WikiPedia <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law">entry</a> This was originally formulated in Eric Raymond’s essay <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html">The Cathedral and the Bazaar</a> . The relevant section is quoted below: Linus was behaving as though he believed something like this: 8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone. Or, less formally, ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.’’ I dub this: ``Linus’s Law’’. My original formulation was that every problem ``will be transparent to somebody’’. Linus demurred that the person who understands and fixes the problem is not necessarily or even usually the person who first characterizes it. ``Somebody finds the problem,’’ he says, ``and somebody else understands it. And I’ll go on record as saying that finding it is the bigger challenge.’‘ WikiPedia entry This was originally formulated in Eric Raymond’s essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar . The relevant section is quoted below: Linus was behaving as though he believed something like this: 8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone. Or, less formally, ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.’’ I dub this: ``Linus’s Law’’. My origi http://swik.net/linus%27s-law bugs open-source linus raymond linus's-law Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:16:35 -0700 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:17:44 -0700