On Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:07 pm, you wrote:
> F=ma
>
> (^^ obligatory law of motion reference in email regarding manpower)

Assuming Fnet is the total progress made, mass is the number of individuals 
working on the project and acceleration is their average effort, you'd need 
to modify the above equation to take into account the undesirables :)

Fnet = ma - Ff


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Anthony Gorecki
Ectro-Linux Foundation