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Linus's law



         


Linus's law, named after Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". More formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone." The rule was formulated and named by Eric S. Raymond in his essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

BambooWeb can be viewed as an attempt to implement this principle in the realm of encyclopedia writing.

Linus Torvalds himself also describes a notion as Linus's Law in the prologue to the book Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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