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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.
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This year will be my fifth LISA in the last six years. I've always been impressed with how fresh the content is. LIke most conferences, the best parts are the hallway track and the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. It's always a struggle fitting everything I want to do into the limited amount of hours in the day.
I'm with you. My contributions to this site make it fairly obvious that I'm an advocate of open source software generally, but I'm under no delusions that it's a panacea. I think there is definite merit to the "many eyes" hypothesis, but it tends to be most beneficial pre-release. In other words, many eyes make design bugs shallow, but by the time the code has shipped, there aren't a whole lot of eyes. Sticking with the ESR theme, I'm generally more in favor of the bazaar approach, but I do think the cathedral has some extra benefit in this sort of situation.