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.

scott 

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