[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Oxford University researchers reveal surprising conclusions
about closed- and open-source software projects in a new paper that
may fan the flames in the divisive debate over how to make better
software.“In their study of a ‘microscopic model of software-bug
dynamics’ in cathedral, bazaar and closed-source software projects,
theoretical physicists Damien Challet and Yann Le Du conclude, for
the first time, that ‘software projects can converge to a bug-free
state even with imperfect programmers…'”