[Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?

[daly]

There is a constant drumbeat to expand the number of developers.
To quote Chris DiDona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone (Open Sources 2.0
ISBN 0-596-00802-3, pXXVIII):
  
  Brooks' Law appears to set a fundamental limit on the optimal
  size of programming teams -- and a rather small limit at that.
  Empirical evidence supports Brooks's Law. For example, since
  its inception SourceForge.net has maintained very close to a
  10:1 ratio of registered users to registered projects, suggesting
  that open source development projects seldom have more than
  10 active developers.

Tim