🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:17:39 +0000, mathew wrote:

> On 2004-02-16, W <still_WMJ@none.com> wrote:
>><mathew@spamtrap-spiesareus.yi.org> wrote in message
>> news:slrnc2vqbh.k1u.mathew@alpha.spiesareus.yi.org...
>>> It's basically impossible to MICROS~1 to scrounge up the same number of
>>> people as who are scruitinising Linux to poke at the Windows codebase.
>>> Even you should have figured that out.
>>
>> Based on what?  Unless you have intement knowledge of the internal/external
>> workings of M$, it is purely speculation.

I think what "W" is trying to say here is that since you can't say with
any precision exactly how many people have read an article that's passed
around only among close friends, and can't say with any precision
exactly how many have read an article that's printed on the front page
of a newspaper, it's unreasonable to conclude that the latter gets more
coverage from the former.

Unfortunately for "W", Usenet is not a Harvard debating forum. Common
sense means more here than silly quibbles.

> There is no way Microsoft have such a huge number of people auditing 
> code there. There are literally thousands of people poking around in the 
> Linux codebase every minute of the day. Microsoft have a couple hundred 
> working on various aspects of Windows.

And most importantly, unlike the friendly cooperative team at Microsoft,
a good many of the Linux developers have reason to distrust each other.
You have mortal enemies - Israeli developers and Arab developers,
Russian developers and Chinese developers, Pakistani developers and
developers from India - all working together on code that will be put to
critical purposes in each other's countries. Thus the very people who
know the code most intimately watch each other's code contributions like
a hawk - and we end-users benefit greatly from that extra paranoia.