open-source software
also referred to as: open source software
2 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2018 by Jimmy Wales · across every show →
Everything said about open-source software, oldest first
Feb 26, 2018 positive
Crowdsourced review catches critical errors that structured gatekeeping often misses
“That concept does actually apply in lots of areas of life, that if you get a lot of people looking at something, people can say, hey, there's actually a problem here that maybe nobody else noticed, and then sometimes after it's been pointed out, you say, oh ye…”
Jan 27, 2020 positive
Wales: Wide public review exposes errors that formal processes miss
“There's an old saying in the open source software world that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
And what that means is, oftentimes when you're programming, there's some kind of bug in your code, and you just cannot find it.
And if you get another s…”