If this suite's a success, why is it so buggy? Publication: Guardian Date: Dec 09 2005 Reporter: Andrew Brown Of all the myths that have grown up around open source software, perhaps the most pervasive is Eric Raymond's aphorism that "Many eyes make bugs shallow", suggesting that if lots of people can view a program's source code, they will find and fix its errors more quickly than commercial products whose code is jealously guarded. The only problem with this is that it's not true - certainly not in one of the flagship projects of open source, OpenOffice. Read comments Read full article Read full article in new window See other articles by Andrew Brown See other articles published by Guardian Today's headlines Headlines for Dec 09, 2005   Comments Subject Posted by Date Re: If this suite's a success, why is it so buggy? deisik 9 Dec, 04:29 Ill-informed Jamyskis B 9 Dec, 06:08 OpenOffice Janvanl 9 Dec, 06:36 What is this guy talking about.... Ptah 9 Dec, 08:57 Yes and no Yodabunny 9 Dec, 16:43 Everything has bugs CrazyDiamond 10 Dec, 09:44 [ all comments ]
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