Re: Linus is on a powertrip..
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Fri, 02 Oct 1998 18:19:54 -0300
In message <199810021946.VAA04827@oboe.it.uc3m.es>, "Peter T. Breuer" writes:
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| "A month of sundays ago Gerard Roudier wrote:"
| > You claim is just stupid in my opinion. Linux success does not imply that
| > Linux development model has been the best possible one and certainly not
| > that it has been better than the FreeBSD one. There are TONS of other
|
| Well, that's testable. Let's try development under the linux model, and
| let's try development under the FreeBSD model, give them a random setof
| talented people each, and see which has more "success".
|
| Ooops .. it's been tried! Linux came up well ahead. So -
| null-hypothesis that there is no relation to the model rejected on that
| test. I wonder how to calculate the prior probabilities ..
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I don't see any proof that the development model is the only difference...
("lies, damned lies, and statistics", you know).
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
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electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university
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