Shirky: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow?

cshirky writes "A persistent criticism of open source is that it is more about copying features than creating new ones. While this criticism is overblown, the literature of open source is richer on the subject of debugging than design. I've written an article about Ben Hammersley's LazyWeb.org, wondering whether open source methods plus RSS distribution can do for feature requests what open source already does for bug fixes, namely parallelize the problem in ways not available to closed source development methods."

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Shirley!

[Anonymous Coward]

Given enough cock n' balls, is your cooze deep enough?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Random chagrin of an otherwise rotund fetidness

[djupedal]

Given enough eyeballs

persistent criticism

parallelize the problem

can do for feature requests

closed source development methods

...this is what is known as writing/speaking without really having anything to say. No one really talks like this and expects to be taken seriously. I'm sure whatever point that was trying to be made could have been said in 80% less words.

Serial perfunction....wholesale alacrity....unmoderated duplicity....characteristic of a bygone glance...shot thru with seamless gall....meritoriously orchastrated... I'm a gonna puke.

Modding me down on this one tells more about you than me, and since modding via negatives is tracked just like positives, you might want to think of your own well being this time around :)