"McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com> wrote:

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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