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 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a>
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-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/09/28 15:33:27 $
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 <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Trends in the fetchmail project's growth</H1>
@@ -77,8 +77,12 @@ The growth trend in code size looks sublinear, perhaps logarithmic.
 
 The linear growth trend in population is particularly interesting; a
 priori we might expect geometric or logistic growth, given that the
-project spreads by word of mouth.  I have not yet been able to
-plausibly imagine a growth model that would produce these numbers.<p>
+project spreads by word of mouth.<P>
+
+It has been suggested that the linear growth rate is the result of a 
+situation in which both number of projects and the population of
+eligible programmers are rising on trend curves of the same (probably
+exponential) rate.<p>
 
 There are some other pages doing similar things:<p>
 
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-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/09/28 15:33:27 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/12/20 04:35:07 $
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 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>