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diff --git a/history.html b/history.html index 0d7d4ac7..0567305a 100644 --- a/history.html +++ b/history.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/09/28 15:33:27 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/12/20 04:35:07 $ </table> <HR> <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> @@ -96,7 +100,7 @@ vocabulary of the Linux kernel.<p> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/09/28 15:33:27 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/12/20 04:35:07 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |