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"techie" <none@dontspamme.invalid> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.02.16.02.49.25.136874@dontspamme.invalid...
> 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.

In a manner of speaking - yes.

But I think it would be more accurate to use the analogy that more people
would read the comic section in private rather than in public, with the main
body of the news paper being read in public.

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

So, as long as you get your point across, do not dwell too much on
symantics?

> > 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.

The development team over at M$ is multi-national as well, that is if you
acknowledge the propaganda splashed over the website and subsidiaries.