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Collaborative software projects such as Linux and Apache have shown that a large, complex system can be built and maintained by many developers working in a highly parallel, relatively unstructured way. The author reports on an experiment to see whether a high quality system specification can also be produced by a large number of people working in parallel with minimum communication.
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