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Measham’s Law: Godwin’s Law for Open Source development

By RickMeasham | October 11, 2007

Godwin’s Law states:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

I now introduce Measham’s Law:

As an online discussion regarding the features of a piece of open source software grows longer, the probability of someone saying “It’s open source, you write it” approaches one.

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