Re: OSS and getting money for it (was: [tlug] Re: Why Vista Sucks)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:

 > This is likely true in most cases, but personnel is the most common
 > cause of failed projects.

URL?  My impression from other sources (Ed Yourdon and SEI, especially
Watts Humphrey) is that the most common failure (at least in places
that do formal post-mortems) is bad planning and specification, with
"mission creep" being a prominent combo of the two.