RE: How much longer..

["Andrew Staples" <andrews () ltinet net>]

> "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett () msmgmt com> wrote:
>
> > 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