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Gates' Law
Gates' Law is the observation that the speed of commercial software generally slows by fifty percent every 18 months. This can be for a variety of reasons: "featuritis", "code cruft", programmer laziness, or a management turnover whose design philosophy does not coincide with the previous manager.
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