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"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup

Posted by samzenpus on from the many-eyes-and-fingers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later. A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth, using an MIT holiday month to hire 20 college student interns to get all their work done and quadrupling its productivity."

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  1. Re:Disappointing by phantomfive · · Score: 0, Troll

    Me and some other people have submitted, days ago, important stories (in our opinion) about a FOSS company that is suing the Quebec government for the right to bid on contracts that went directly to Microsoft. This is being heard by the supreme court right now. The supreme court! And it's not even making slashdot!

    You should submit a story about that, it sounds really interesting. Apparently Canadians don't like submitting stories.

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    Qxe4