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Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

Wed Aug 16 09:55:10 BST 2006

[Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?] is a classic post describing the bikeshed principle to Open Source developers. The basic concept comes from the book "Parkinson's Law", the point being that people will spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with small problems if those problems are within their skill set.

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