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Leo Bicknell bicknell at ufp.org
Thu Jul 8 17:58:42 PDT 2004


In a message written on Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:28:22PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd at silverwraith.com> writes:
> > They said "6 staff-years".
> 
> No, they said three engineers working full-time for two years.

I will also point out that many software "features" exhibit an
exponentially decaying re-implementation time.  The next implementation
might take two people 6 months, the one after that two people 2
months, and so on.

I for one, look forward to this technology.

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