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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@THYRSUS.COM>
Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Subject: Re: economics of free software
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Stephen W. Commiskey <scommisk@RICHMOND.EDU>:
>Has anyone participated in thorough discussions on this topic? What is the critical mass of programmer time that makes an open-source project succeed, regardless of the number of free riders?
My own experience is that the lower bound for success is about twenty active developers. By the time you have fifty, the bazaar effect should be quite powerful.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense."
-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@THYRSUS.COM>
Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Subject: Re: economics of free software
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Stephen W. Commiskey on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:03:59PM -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Stephen W. Commiskey <scommisk@RICHMOND.EDU>:
>Has anyone participated in thorough discussions on this topic? What is the critical mass of programmer time that makes an open-source project succeed, regardless of the number of free riders?
My own experience is that the lower bound for success is about twenty active developers. By the time you have fifty, the bazaar effect should be quite powerful.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense."
-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"
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