How many years can a tiny unbalanced parenthesis go unnoticed on a widely accessed Internet document, older than the World Wide Web itself ?
Digital Libraries
2021-01-12 v1
Abstract
We conducted an investigation to find when a mistake was introduced in a widely accessed Internet document, namely the RFC index. With great surprise, we discovered that a it may go unnoticed for a very long period, namely more that twenty-six years. This raises some questions to what does it mean to have open access and the meaning of Linus' laws that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
Cite
@article{arxiv.2101.03884,
title = {How many years can a tiny unbalanced parenthesis go unnoticed on a widely accessed Internet document, older than the World Wide Web itself ?},
author = {Michele Finelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.03884},
year = {2021}
}
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8 pages, internal report