"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well clearly there's a spectrum. However, I have previously written that > the number of open source projects that appear to get stuck somewhere > between release 0.1 and release 0.9 is amazingly large, and does imply > some dissipation of effort.
And how do the failure and effort dissipation rates of open source code compare to those of closed source code? Of course, we have only anecdotal evidence that the latter is also 'amazingly large'. And, to be fair, the latter should include the one-programmer proprietary projects that correspond to the one-programmer open projects. Also, what is 'amazing' to one depends on one's expectations ;-). It is known, for instance, that some large fraction of visible retail business fail within a year. And that natural selection is based on that fact that failure is normal. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
