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Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT)
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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)
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