Linus' Law

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Etymology

Named after Finnish-American software engineer Linus Torvalds (1969–) who is the creator of, and was for a long time principal developer of, the Linux kernel.

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Linus' Law

  1. (software engineering) A claim about software development that states that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”.

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