In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>"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.
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>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
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The usual measurements and estimates are generally between 15% and
30%. "Desirable" businesses--restaurants, for example, or computing
consultancies--are even more likely to fail.
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