{"id":3925,"date":"2023-07-17T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2023-06-24T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T12:45:12","slug":"linus-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/07\/linus-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Linus&#8217; Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let&#8217;s do what we can do bring more people into the solution-providing space.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am going to repeat some things I wrote in a blog post in 2015. In researching today&#8217;s post, I found that old post and wondered a bit at how good it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, Linus&#8217; Law is: &#8220;given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.&#8221; This is from Eric Raymond in his book &#8220;The Cathedral and the Bazaar&#8221; (1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If someone wants to come and look at what I am working, I should let them. But it&#8217;s not ready to be seen! So what? But, I am embarrassed! So what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 2015&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone out there knows the answer or knows a different approach that makes the answer available with a little (not a lot of) work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some technical \u201cavailables\u201d include the ever less expensive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>computer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>health monitor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>microscope<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>telescope<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>blog platform<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pencil and paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All these things put more eyeballs on more problems. Perhaps the cure for cancer is coming from an unexpected (unfunded) source in an unexpected place. Wouldn\u2019t it be great if a 13-year-old in Tibet raised her hand with the answer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Give that person a second-hand $100 Chromebook and show them how to get a one-month, free-trial of a cloud computing platform. Stand back in wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a set of used pots and pans? Someone needs them to discover the next great thing in cooking or chemistry or medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, have a kind word? Sometimes that is what is needed to expand the set of eyeballs and make the problem so shallow that the solution is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Let&#8217;s do what we can do bring more people into the solution-providing space. I am going to repeat some things I wrote in a blog post in 2015. In researching today&#8217;s post, I found that old post and wondered a bit at how good it was. Anyway, Linus&#8217; Law is: &#8220;given enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,10,53,337,292],"tags":[207,133,174,338,295],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-people","category-problems","category-solutions","category-tools","tag-education","tag-people","tag-problems","tag-solutions","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}