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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">bbob</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:#FAFAFA"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:synth-diy%40synth-diy.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Bsdiy%5D%20Marketplace%20Question&In-Reply-To=%3CCABbX2d-sRwM5V8v%3D8mwzFTpvuKm%2BOiwWkObV%2BPyOZ6hW%3D-tkxA%40mail.gmail.com%3E" title="[sdiy] Marketplace Question"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">fluxmonk
at gmail.com</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Sun Nov 8 00:16:39 CET 2020</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">“I think the reference is to the way LINUX is developed: many thousands of<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">people contributing to the creating/testing/debugging of code, using<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">software platforms like GIT and stringent protocols for contributing,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">testing, versioning, and release.”<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Thanks bbob.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I thought Gordon was referring to the “management” problem under discussion (i.e., AI doing YOUR job!) and Linux as a TOOL and not just obliquely as a mere EXAMPLE.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not much of an example <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>-<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>appears it required an enormous level of quality supervision – not a simple crowdsource and someone to just say GO.<o:p> </o:p></p>
-Bernie </div>
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