Re: RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

1999-08-22 Thread Miguel de Icaza
> If anything, GNOME is part of the "GNOME movement" - any other group > trying to take credit for it or call it their own, should reconsider > their position. The "G" in GNOME stands for GNU. GNOME is part of the GNU project. Just in case you had not noticed ;-) Miguel.

Re: RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaarobey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

1999-08-20 Thread Miguel de Icaza
I agree with Richard that GNOME should be classified of part of the Free Software movement. We started this project to provide a free (in the sense of freedom) user interface for the GNU project. We are not working on GNOME because it is "economically" a good idea, nor for any of the allegedly

Re: RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaarobey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

1999-08-18 Thread Miguel de Icaza
> There was a time that the GNU/Linux system was not of "sufficiently high > quality" to do much of anything useful. If that had been the deciding factor > we would have never made it to this point. Speak for yourself. I have been using GNU software and Linux since its very early ages to do us

Re: RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaarobey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

1999-08-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
> One interesting implication of Brooks's Law is that as N (the number of > developers) gets sufficiently large, the cost of management and > coordination (which is a function of N^2) ends up exceeding the > productivity of the developers (which is a function of N) and nobody > produces anything