Via Slashdot, an interesting interview with Alan Cox.
itwales.com: The Linux OS is renowned for being stable, fast and virtually virus-immune. How have you achieved this?
Alan: Open development. People have spent ten years looking over each other's code able to refine the existing code and to spot security holes. The same process of peer review that ensures university research quality and that bridges don’t fall down has simply been applied to software, which as an engineering discipline should always have been the case.
Friday, February 15, 2002
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