11. Acknowledgements
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
develop 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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