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[Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?
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daly |
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[Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s? |
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Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:43:53 -0500 |
There is a constant drumbeat to expand the number of developers.
To quote Chris DiDona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone (Open Sources 2.0
ISBN 0-596-00802-3, pXXVIII):
Brooks' Law appears to set a fundamental limit on the optimal
size of programming teams -- and a rather small limit at that.
Empirical evidence supports Brooks's Law. For example, since
its inception SourceForge.net has maintained very close to a
10:1 ratio of registered users to registered projects, suggesting
that open source development projects seldom have more than
10 active developers.
Tim
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