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A comment on The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999). Parent comment

Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by tptacek on Monday May 15, 2023 @01:39PM (#35951766)
If "few people were looking" at OpenSSL, one of the most widely-used pieces of open source software in the entire industry, Eric Raymond's point is refuted.
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by lmm on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:23PM (#35954666)
That's just one possibility. There are many ways for a development process to go wrong.
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by tptacek on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:12PM (#35955212)
The whole thesis is that the open source userbase forms the army of eyeballs that will surface all bugs --- they're part of the development process. So no, this dodge doesn't work either; it doesn't cohere with what Raymond said.
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