[brluglist] windows sucks

[Dustin Puryear]

At 05:39 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Yes.

How does writing open source software reduce the number of errors that you 
introduce into code? In my view open source software only increases the 
number of eyeballs that can spot those errors.

Regards, Dustin



>John Hebert
>
>--- Dustin Puryear <dpuryear at usa.net> wrote:
> > At 03:25 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Sounds like a combination of problems. But, when it
> > >comes to tracking down problems, I _always_ suspect
> > >software, not hardware, first. Software is just
> > easier
> > >to screw up, especially on a closed source
> > operating
> > >system. Now, it may be that the hardware in the
> >
> > Do you think closed software is easier to "screw up"
> > or simply more
> > difficult to fix? Does writing open source software
> > reduce the number of
> > errors you introduce into code, or increase the
> > number of people able to
> > spot the errors?
> >
> > Regards, Dustin
> >
> >
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