Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:34:17 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT) Message-ID: <3A42A189.45D56AA8@elischer.org> References: <NEBBIGOKKMNLOMOHMJNPMELBCNAA.admin@bsdfan.cncdsl.com> <200012211753.LAA28708@guild.plethora.net> <20001222100503.B45529@internode.com.au> <nospam-3a429dbe3d165c4@maxim.gbch.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greg Black wrote:
>
> Mark Newton wrote:
>
> > I get concerned that those who point to a lack of a QA cycle in open
> > source software are missing the point entirely: They're focussing on
> > the 'process' they're familiar with so much that they don't seem to
> > acknowledge that alternative approaches can demonstrate similar results.
>
> We open source zealots "know" this, but still it would nice to
> be able to point to some empirical data -- has anybody done a
> PhD thesis on it? If not, what are all the students waiting
> for?
opensource quality depends on 2 things:
1/ the quality of teh original instigators. A bad design takes a lot to fix:
2/ the popularity of the project.. (to some extent) (and with who).
The number of talented people with high enough interest needs to be greater
than 1 and there are
limits to how many such people there are.. (2 talented people with not a lot of
time is probably less than 1 talented person with time)
--
__--_|\ Julian Elischer
/ \ julian@elischer.org
( OZ ) World tour 2000
---> X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest
v
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3A42A189.45D56AA8>