Linus's Law
Origin
From Eric S. Raymond's 1999 "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Explaining Linux's success, Raymond named "Linus's Law". Why open development (bazaar) beats closed (cathedral): with enough eyes, any bug is obvious to someone. The constitution of the open source movement.
Meaning
Why Linux patches bugs faster than Windows. Why Wikipedia matches Britannica's accuracy (Nature 2005). There are tasks where one genius cannot beat 100 — discovery is one. Linus's Law is the cleanest formulation of collective intelligence.
Lesson — Meeting Eastern Classics
Analects 7.21: "Among any three, one is my teacher." Confucius taught the limit of one teacher and the abundance of many. Linus showed that abundance works for debugging code too.
"衆" depicts three people (人) — a multitude. Analects 13.23: "A gentleman harmonizes without uniformity." For 衆 to be real 衆, diversity is required. 100 identical eyes are no better than one pair.
