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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 15:21:39 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:09:15 +0100
Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:40:52 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:05:33 +0100
> > 
> > Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along.
> 
> > "The mythical man-month" by Brooks perfectly describes akonadi, they
> > went right ahead and made every mistake in the book, especially all
> > the ones solved in the 70s already,...
> 
> What? Is that old dog still around? I read it about 20 years ago.
 
It might be old but every word in it is still just as true as the day
it was written. Nothing else has come close to doing it like Brooks.

I found my copy in a tiny out of the way junk shop in a place called
Memel (at the arse end of the world), priced at about a cup of coffee.
A treasured find indeed :-)




-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com