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