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* John Doe :
After reading the other post and guessing at what that book is about, it is an interesting theory IMO, which seems to correspond with my fleeting thot Bill Gates led the drive to produce a very complex operating system (windows). The key point is that you seldom get better efficiency and better output by throwing more programmers at a problem. There comes a point where you get diminishing returns. But then I wonder how Linux is successfully being developed by independent programmers all over the world. Leaving aside the free (as in freedom) issue for a moment; the GNU/Linux model is almost akin to the FS arena right now: different groups of people working on different problems and providing a pool of solutions that the end user can draw upon. Microsoft provide a kernel (MSFS itself) and other developers around the world provide lots of extra facilities and features that we can add to taste. It's not perfect but it does seem to make for a thriving community and does seem to provide work and income for many people. -- Dave Pearson: | lbdb.el - LBDB interface. http://www.davep.org/ | sawfish.el - Sawfish mode. Emacs: | uptimes.el - Record emacs uptimes. http://www.davep.org/emacs/ | quickurl.el - Recall lists of URLs. |
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