Re: VOTE - Apple communit

[Frank Carney <frankcNOSPAM@cyberhighway.net>]

This closed door policy of development is crap.  If you want a good
example look at how often Windows 95 crashes programs.  If the Apple II
programmers really want to create high quality, fast release programs
that "benefit" the Apple community ( what is left of it) then they
should look at how Linux is developed.  Release often (sometimes several
times a day), allow people access to the code, use internet beta
testers, delegate tasks, and allow code submissions.  The result is that
commercially developed software has a 15 to 50 percent bug rate while
Open Source Softwate has a 7 percent bug rate. ( Linux itself has a 9
percent bug rate.)

My source of information on stats and the development cycle is here:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

I hope this gets people thinking about what they want from this
"community".  To me all I see is mud flinging back and forth about
really stupid things.  Anyway, I have probably said to much.  Thanks for
your time.

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