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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] 5 years later and still whining
From:       Anton Aylward <opensuse () antonaylward ! com>
Date:       2013-05-26 13:05:28
Message-ID: 51A20898.1080708 () antonaylward ! com
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Billie Walsh said the following on 05/26/2013 08:42 AM:
>
> It also didn't help that KDE4 was foisted on the users when still a Beta
> at best and most likely a late stage Alpha.
>

What ever happened to the
	“many eyes make all bugs shallow”
ideal of Open Source, then?

Or perhaps more sensibly and wordily:

   “Many eyes” identifying the issues, or a large enough beta-tester
   base so that almost every problem will be characterized, and enough
   developers working on fixing issues so that a fix can be developed
   and deployed.

There's another adage that might apply to the way KDE4 has worked out
	"Release early, release often".
	

Or would you rather the Microsoft way where the alpha and beta testing 
leave many critical bugs and security holes unpatched, critical fixes 
every Tuesday and intermittently released "roll-ups"?

-- 
"Just because something is configured 'correctly' doesn't mean that the 
system is actually secure..."
   -- Ed Skoudis, co-founder of Inguardians
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