A common fallacy in the FOSS community is that to make a software better, all you need is to add developers working on it.
A good example can be found here
“If you needed to design a new piece of software that provided new functionality to a particular operating system, would the small, proprietary group of 15 people from redmond provide more creative wisdom than a massive team of over 1000 developers from all over the planet? I seriously doubt it.”
Well, 15 professional developers, working full time on a project, in the same room so they can communicate with each other easily, with high responsibilities, will do much better than 1000 developers spread all over the world, working in their free time, without responsibilities.
This is obvious to any software developer. This is the case in many domains too.
You don’t make a better software by throwing more developers in a team. It is in fact commonly recognized and admitted that after a certain limit, putting more developers in a team will only make things worse.
To FOSS community: remember, you can’t have a baby in one month, even if you make 9 women pregnant.
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But you’re forgetting — it’s “redmond” we’re talking about here.
I found this quote hugely funny, as well, particularly the unintentional humour (“without responsibilities”) and the failure to recognise that, even if you can somehow amass a worldwide team of a thousand or so altruistic geniuses for something like f-spot, the poor sods will still be up against a hundred thousand screaming Loonix desktop ninnies who don’t need to code, but like to comment (yes, Hoppi, you’re one of them).
Also needs a link to ManyEyesMakeAllBugsShallow™, I think.
TooManyCooksSpoilTheOpenSauce™
@Declination, post that as an alternative definition to this one!
I love how freetards choose to ignore the Mythical Man Month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Just throw more people at it!
Well, they’re programming experts, of course they’re right. Add 9001 people, and suddenly, all the bugs are gone, the program is finished literally overnight, and the team is communicat –
Wait. No.
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