From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4BC9C6CD020000CC00026D2D@wlgw07.wlu.ca> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:33:49 -0400 From: "Karljurgen Feuerherm" To: <9fans@9fans.net> References: <4BC9B124020000CC00026CE6@wlgw07.wlu.ca> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 06a9b296-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Alright. Perhaps we're converging here. Small team is what I was thinking--= I agree that as teams get larger they get more unmanageable and tend to = produce less focused (and thus less efficient or pristine) results. This has been a helpful discussion for me in terms of trying to get the = gist of the Plan9 ideology. K >>> 17/04/2010 1:46:47 pm >>> > I struggle with this. Groups can do things and have honour. And groups = often do things without paycheques. I remember a group effort to implement = Tiny C for microcomputers in the late 70s... it was a group effort and was = plenty honourable... There will always be exceptions. Also, eadership can give a group an identity very similar to individuality and I suspect this merely confirms the statement you are commenting on. And then there is the sheer size of groups and the competing interests within any group, growing as the group grows. ++L