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On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:18:19 +0000, Jeff Rollin wrote: |
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> On 18/12/06, John J. Foster <Gentoo-User@××××××××××××××××××××××.org> |
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> > > It may, but you are confusing cause and effect. A distro with more |
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> > > developers should be a better distro, and should have more users. |
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> > Well, Microsoft has proven that theory wrong ;-> |
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Windows is not a distro. The development model is completely different. |
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On the other hand, Windows has more developers and users than any Linux |
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distro, so by the original argument, it must be much better... |
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> Indeed. In fact Fred Brooks, (In "The Mythical Man Month", |
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> specifically cited MS-DOS as one of the computing projects that |
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> "people don't get excited about" - for the very reason you and he |
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> cites, that throwing more developers at a project will not only fail |
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> to improve it, and improve it faster, but will slow it down and make |
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> it buggier. |
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Eric Raymond explained why this doesn't apply to open source development |
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in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". |
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