Bob La Quey wrote:
Well if 2 is company and 3 a crowd then is 5 a committee? :)
I wonder why novels are rarely written by committees. And what
about the technical world is so different from publishing fiction?
Ahem. I was being polite in choosing then number 5. If you look up the
data, it is at least an inverse ratio. The fewer the number of
developers, the *many* more projects there are. One may be the lonliest
number, but that's the largest number of projects on SF.net.
And, as a rebuttal to your authoring point, I would argue that many of
the best novels were produced by a "committee" of at least 2. An author
and an editor. Simply having one extra person read and correct the
novel created a *much* better end product in most cases.
In fact, I blame the decline of editing for some of the absolutely
wretched garbage now sitting on the shelves of the bookstores.
-a
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