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To: Eric Wells who wrote (1074)9/9/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Read Replies (1) of 1794
 
You've made repeated statements about hte large beaurocratic overhead necessary for open source development. The reality, though, is that these speculations are not born out by experience.

An example is that Linus can manage kernel development in his spare time (while working a full time job doing other stuff) in part because there's others dealing with lower level issues. The StrongArm port of Linux, for instance, is managed by a guy named Russell King. When he has a set of changes for the kernel, after they've been tested (and evaluated by all the people doing Strong Arm linux development) he passes them on to Linus who integrates them and viola' next release they are there. This works very efficiently and quickly. If they don't pass linus's muster, then Russel could go off and do his own kernel, but more likely, he'll make the requested changes and resubmit them. The impact is pretty minimal because both are working off of the same code base and only collating deltas for particular architectures (in this case).

Compared to my experience at microsoft- where there were a lot of beaurocrats with no understanding of code who had their hands in the pie- there is none of htat with Linux. In fact, its quite the opposite- part of the reason Microsoft is so glacial is not just that htey have much fewer developers, but for every developer, they have a program manager to slow them down.

Dragonfly
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