| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Scott Beasley <jscottb(at)infoave(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ansley Michael <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec(dot)co(dot)za>, "'Don Baccus '" <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, "''PostgreSQL-development ' '" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source |
| Date: | 2000-01-05 00:18:35 |
| Message-ID: | 200001050018.TAA01002@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > Makes you wonder what people (companies) are spending their money on.
> > > My take on it is that commercial software licensing is, by and large, a
> > > hoax.
> > >
> > > MikeA
> >
> > My guess is that in most organizations only a handful of people
> > understand the code. The rest do support/sales/marketing.
> >
>
> Thats the way it is every place I have worked. It's known as the 2/3
> rule. 1/3 of your coders actually know what the hell is going on, the
> other 2/3's of them are in the dark/do not care/collect a check.
Oh, I didn't know it had a name. I find it usually less than 1/3.
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