Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Jan 10 14:50:42 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:45:14PM +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote:
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> The Praeto principle is relevant here.  The more software we have, the less 
> time contributors have to spend time on fixing bugs in a random project 
> (let's say the Firewire stack as a random example) if they wanted to 
> because they have to worry about fixing bugs in the packages they maintain.

It is not right if more softwares come with more contributors. Or if the
contributors have do it anyway, but cannot easily share what they did.

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Pat




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