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Re:Only a few vendor-paid developers do almost all open-sour... by trumped on Saturday June 16, 2018 @07:48PM (#17330134)
> It makes sense because most software works this way anyhow

What does that mean?

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Re:Only a few vendor-paid developers do almost all open-sour... by prepend on Saturday June 16, 2018 @09:15PM (#17330402)
It means most software projects are actually written by small teams of under 10. When you don’t count all the project staff, testing, operations, user support, etc.

Softwareis typically just lots of small components linked together. Especially super generalizable stuff like popular open source.

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