July 30, 2004
CIC Teaching and Learning Mentors
Institute
The Assertions
lOSS license management is easy
lOSS is more reliable and has fewer bugs
lDepends on transparency of development, number and commitment of developers, parallel debugging, etc
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (Linus Torvalds)
But how can Internet connectivity and asynchronous development work more efficiently if the mythical man month is true?
(Adding more programmers to a late project makes it
later)