On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:45:41 +1100, ddailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How many person years did the ASV plugin take to develop (or is that a > secret)? How many person years have gone into Opera and Firefox's SVG developments? 100 person years or less? I am not sure of the exact figures, but Opera's development would have taken about an order of magnitude less so far (unlike Adobe we are still working on it...) > It's hard to imagine any software project with the big companies taking less than 100 person years, just owing to the appetites of the bean counters. (Brooks' law may underestimate both the weight of beans and the value of zeal.) cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
