RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaarobey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

[John Cowan]

Jacques Chester wrote:

> Forking is important and healthy, in my view.

The trouble with forking is that it divides attention, which is
the true scarce resource.  The World Wide Web Consortium, for
example, is fiddling around with its structure now, experimenting
with subdividing and re-merging, but the fact is that it can only
do so much with the available minds.  (The fact that other minds
aren't available is a separate problem).

-- 
	John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan	cowan at ccil.org
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
			-- Coleridge / Politzer