On 2004-02-01 20:28:31 +0000 J j.e.taylor@uea.ac.uk wrote:
yeah, if I get the worlds best box packer, why the hell not clone him (lets presuming cloning is some kind of instantainous cloning that produces an identical in every respect (phsychological and physical))?
OK, say you do that. Now what happens to your workforce when it catches some disease lethal to them because of a genetic defect?
One of the motivations for multiple implementations is insurance against that type of flaw. Another is competition to produce better value designs, that you might see with single source compared with multiple source electronic components (admittedly less recently).
[...] Is this method of project creation that is currently used in Open Source a good method?
There are multiple methods in use for free software.
Are the benifits that people keep going on about in Open Source becomming apparant for the majority of Open Source projects?
I don't know of good research into this at the moment, although I just started looking today. Do you?
Use of word Open Source as opposed to publicly availible programs?
Pardon?