> Sure some tasks like simulators etc are big and
> need 1000's of
> person hours, but if 1000 people each wrote a small module,
> it would take no
> more than 5 hours per person (assuming it would take one
> person 2000 hours).

No way, unless it is trivial software. In my experience productivity is
more like the logarithmical than linear in the number of persons
involved.

Wouter van Ooijen

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