- Does releasing early and often lead to more (non-shallow) eyeballs? Not really: see Heartbleed or the OpenSSL RNG bug in Debian.
The existence of those bugs doesn't disprove the claim. You'd need to show that software that is not released early and often doesn't have (even) fewer eyeballs.
The existence of those bugs doesn't disprove the claim. You'd need to show that software that is not released early and often doesn't have (even) fewer eyeballs.