Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > Makes you wonder what people (companies) are spending their money on. 
> > > My take on it is that commercial software licensing is, by and large, a
> > > hoax.
> > > 
> > > MikeA
> > 
> > My guess is that in most organizations only a handful of people
> > understand the code.  The rest do support/sales/marketing.
> > 
> 
> Thats the way it is every place I have worked.  It's known as the 2/3
> rule.  1/3 of your coders actually know what the hell is going on, the
> other 2/3's of them are in the dark/do not care/collect a check.

Oh, I didn't know it had a name.  I find it usually less than 1/3.

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