logoalt Hacker News

abc123abc123today at 2:53 PM1 replyview on HN

You'd better read it again, because that claim does not figure in that text. You might mean that with more eyes on the code, more bugs are found, than with no eyes on the code. But that is not what you are saying here.


Replies

rectangtoday at 4:54 PM

Here is the relevant quote from _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_[1], which was given the name _Linus's Law_[2] in honor of Linus Torvalds:

> Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law