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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by zzo38computer on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:06PM (#21794388)
Those things I agree with it. The good open-source programs mostly are better than other programs in these ways.

Yes there will be many badly written programs (I think someone said that 90% of anything will be not very good), but there is good stuff too. I think it may be the case even with the closed sources, but in that case they are unavailable so we will not have any statistics about it.

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by kwhitefoot on Sunday December 15, 2019 @05:04AM (#21795415)
> 90% of anything will be not very good),

Theodore Sturgeon is usually credited with it but he was a little less polite and rather more definite, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

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