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From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Founders as a module? was Re: Getting to Version 3.0
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:02:40 -0400

On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 20:03 -0400, Greg London wrote:

You can either get a small number of people to work
a large number of hours to get N hours

p * H = N

or you can get a large number of people to work small
numbers of hours to get N hours total.

P * h = N

Kind of like how one woman makes a baby in 9 months, so 9 women can make a baby in one month? B-)

This is the mythical man-month fallacy; communications and organizational overhead between people takes a significant toll in terms of effort after p = 1.

~Evan

Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
http://evan.prodromou.name/

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