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> "McBurnett, Jim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >OK.. > >I have lurked enough on this one.. > >$60 Billion plus for microsoft.. > >and 600 millions lines of code. > >thousands of employee programmers... Brooks' Law (in its various forms) applies to software houses, not open source projects. Since open source (rarely|never) commits to a schedule/deadline, GNU projects accomplish what Microsoft et.al. will never be able to as their products bloat. (for case study consider RH Linux 4.0 in 1996) IMHO, Andrew
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