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Parkinson's law?

Parkinson's law?

Posted Oct 25, 2011 14:02 UTC (Tue) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
Parent article: KS2011: Development process issues

> In his mind, the biggest problem we have is the increase in kernel complexity.

This might be due to some variant of Parkinson's law: as the ability of the kernel developers to manage complexity increases, so does the complexity of the kernel.


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