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This paper was improved by conversations with a large number of people
who helped debug it. Particular thanks to Jeff Dutky
<dutky@wam.umd.edu>, who suggested the "debugging is
parallelizable" formulation, and helped developed the analysis that
proceeds from it. Also to Nancy Lebovitz
<nancyl@universe.digex.net> for her suggestion that I emulate
Weinberg by quoting Kropotkin. Perceptive criticisms also came from
Joan Eslinger <wombat@kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com> and Marty Franz
<marty@net-link.net> of the General Technics list. Paul Eggert
<eggert@twinsun.com> noticed the conflict between GPL and the
bazaar model. I'm grateful to the members of PLUG, the Philadelphia
Linux User's group, for providing the first test audience for the
first public version of this paper. Finally, Linus Torvalds's
comments were helpful and his early endorsement very encouraging.
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