[60544] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How much longer..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Staples)
Wed Aug 13 19:22:38 2003
From: "Andrew Staples" <andrews@ltinet.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:22:03 -0700
In-Reply-To: <248F3F0B2C31F84CB376D24C6E6691326520F9@vulture.vanc.nwnetcom>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com> wrote:
>=20
> >OK..
> >I have lurked enough on this one..
> >$60 Billion plus for microsoft..
> >and 600 millions lines of code.
> >thousands of employee programmers...
Brooks' Law (in its various forms) applies to software houses, not open
source projects. Since open source (rarely|never) commits to a
schedule/deadline, GNU projects accomplish what Microsoft et.al. will =
never
be able to as their products bloat. (for case study consider RH Linux =
4.0 in
1996)
IMHO,
Andrew
