On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:31 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:31:47AM -0500, David G. Mackay wrote: > > > Design by committee just doesn't work. > > > > So all of those ISO and IEEE standards are worthless? > > Most of the good ones have a design list a few names long. Same with the > good RFC stuff. May have had 100 people twiddle with the spec but only a tiny > few wrote it. Compare IPv6 an OSI Level 4 ... Sure, but the fact is that design by committee can work. There's a book, "We Are Smarter Than Me" by Barry Liebert, Jon Specter, and a cast of thousands. It gives cases where group input has been highly productive. For that matter, how about the linux kernel? Group dynamics obviously forms a complex system, which, often enough spirals off into chaos. Every now and then, however, it does work. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
