And it is inherently obvious that OS's with greater numbers of users will exercise a greater number of lines of code; ...[snip]... My complaint is that few Mac and Linux users seem to be aware of simple engineering dynamics. c,mon b2k. you should have included windows in there, or left out the linux. the world is filled with clueless windows users and programmers.
[seperated out, cause addison wesley rules] read Watts Humphrey's "A Discipline for Software Engineering" (Addison-Wesley)
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Absolutely. I don't debate that there are many clueless Windows users, as well. But Windows users are accustomed to bugs and they're usually not going around foolishly touting the reliability of their OS like some deluded Mac and Linux users.
By the way, did you like the Watts Humphrey text?