From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1535997499.784480.1495319464.0DE4D730@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1535997499.784480.1495319464.0DE4D730@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Lucio De Re Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:51:58 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] Is Plan 9 C "Less Dangerous?" Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0d07772-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 9/3/18, Ethan Gardener wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, at 1:40 PM, Chris McGee wrote: >> While the idea that many eyes makes bugs shallower seems to have failed >> in the world of complex behemoth software it may work here. > > I think it worked for a while, but eventually complexity grew beyond even > the many eyes approach. > Could even be that the many-eyes approach encouraged the complexity; in fact, that could easily be the unintended consequence. Lucio.