And, in addition to the environment, what motivations within the different environments affect how bugs get found, and what reward there is for finding them?
For example:
Do you think (your opinion, of course) that open source original authors are more motivated to create fewer bugs because their code will be read by others?
Or perhaps that open source finds an academic (or similar) niche and one can obtain academic (or similar) stardom by finding bugs?
Finally, from these motivations, how do you think motivation itself could improve in proprietary software's ability to fix bugs? (Provided motivation is indeed the problem, and proprietary software does, indeed, tend to have more errors).
I wanted to offer my fellow Westies congratulations. Although I'm not there, my heart is.
I also wanted to put up a joke that Greg Rae, member of the West community, told about three years ago when he began programming the drivers for a robotic bartender arm in the same spirit.
He said that he wanted to program it in shell script so that when someone asked "What rhymes with Vodka?" he did not have to answer the familiar "More Vodka"...
...He could answer "/dev/vodka".
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For example:
I also wanted to put up a joke that Greg Rae, member of the West community, told about three years ago when he began programming the drivers for a robotic bartender arm in the same spirit.
He said that he wanted to program it in shell script so that when someone asked "What rhymes with Vodka?" he did not have to answer the familiar "More Vodka"...
...He could answer "/dev/vodka".