A million eyes is a metaphor, from Eric S. Raymond's famous saying, "Under a million eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
If lots of people use the GIMP, it gets more eyeballs, naturally.
Ashwin Dixit
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2026-03-13 08:30:59 UTC
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