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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/14
Date: 1998-11-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sofmf6op.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01be0ff2$6dd17b60$96a55c8b@aptiva

In article <01be0ff2$6dd17b60$96a55c8b@aptiva>,
"Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net> writes:
> Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com> schreef in artikel
> <364d0243.39960214@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>...

>> One advantage cited for Open Source Software is that it can be
>> debugged in parallel by many people.  That would seem to fit the style
>> of 'code anything, then debug until it works' better than the 'design
>> it so it works in the first place' style, which seems less amenable to
>> parallelism.  Comments? 

> Ever seen a design, much less a requirements document for
> Open Source Software ?

Yes. Lots of them actually.

-Andi





  reply	other threads:[~1998-11-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-14  0:00 Open-Source and programming style Tom Moran
1998-11-14  0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-14  0:00   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
1998-11-14  0:00     ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15  0:00       ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-19  0:00         ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-14  0:00   ` dewar
1998-11-15  0:00     ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-15  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1998-11-15  0:00         ` Andi Kleen
1998-11-15  0:00           ` Corey Minyard
1998-11-19  0:00             ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-15  0:00           ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-16  0:00             ` dewarr
1998-11-16  0:00               ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-17  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-11-17  0:00                   ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-19  0:00           ` Richard Kenner
1998-11-23  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-16  0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-16  0:00   ` dewarr
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