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RE: RAC on Windows or Linux

From: Laimutis Nedzinskas <Laimutis.Nedzinskas_at_landsbanki.is>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:43:55 -0000
Message-ID: <5A8896FB2AFC5445A7DCFC5903CCA6B06FEB4B@W03856.li01r1d.lais.net>


>From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mogens Nørrgaard
>I have no idea why people think that open source should be of better quality than closed source, or that something is better because large parts of it has been coded by people in their sparetime (tired, after working their normal jobs, etc.)

Not that I argue about the issue of quality but who said that those people are tired at work? Or even that they code those large parts *after* working hours?  

BTW: may be it's a known fact but I've personally red it in Microsoft's employee's blog. If my memory doesn't fail me in details there was some bug in open source implementation of tcp/ip stack(was it Berkley?) for 10 or so years until someone performed a formal verification (this someone could have been in his PhD studies) and found this bug. 10 years of theoretical possibility to read every line of the code have passed until that moment .        

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