As an aside, I'm not really begging the question because I defended ESR's "Linus' Law" thing in a different comment.
Yes it is.
>A character attack is not an argument
His argument is not a character attack. It is pointing out two problems with Eric's hypothesis. The reality that simply saying "lots of eyes" doesn't actually mean there are lots of eyes. And that the eyes have to be attached to people who actually know what bugs look like or they won't be found. ESR himself does not bother to look at code, thus providing counter evidence to his own claim that open source software is seen by many eyes.
Do you not see how this basic statement is completely illogical?
"One guy doesn't audit code much, therefore nobody audits code." Seriously?