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But the advantage of open source isn’t just that you can fix it when you need to. It’s that everyone can. Open source software is like a paper that has been subject to peer review. Lots of smart people have examined the source code of open source operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD and have already found most of the bugs. Whereas Windows is only as reliable as big-company QA can make it.
Camilo Uribe
Open source has a lot more people doing QA than any big company
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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