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On 18/12/06, John J. Foster <Gentoo-User@××××××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:37:10PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:58:26 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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> > |
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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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> festus. |
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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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Jeff |
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Now, did you hear the news today? |
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They say the danger's gone away |
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But I can hear the marching feet |
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Moving into the street |
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Adapted from Genesis, "Land of Confusion" |
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http://latedeveloperbasketcase.blogspot.com |
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