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Unfortunately, we've found out in the subsequent 20+years since that was said, that most projects, even major ones, don't have enough eyeballs...

There was a point a few years ago that GTK+ dev was complaining that only he was left to work on the project. A single person for a whole GUI lib..

And GTK+ is the basis of so many FOSS it's not even funny...



https://xkcd.com/2347/

The main advantage of open source for me isn't that all bugs are found. It's that when I encounter a bug I can check the code, report it, fix it in my fork and get it fixed in the main repo eventually.

With closed source you have to make do with workarounds.




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