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Gates's Law
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The speed of software halves every 18 months. This oft-cited law is an
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ironic comment on the tendency of software bloat to outpace the
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every-18-month doubling in hardware capacity per dollar predicted by Moore's
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Law. The reference is to Bill Gates; Microsoft is widely considered among
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the worst if not the worst of the perpetrators of bloat.
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