Architectural Tragedy of the Commons
Posted by: K. Scott Allen,
on 12 Oct 2011 |
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From Wikipedia: The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen. It might seem odd to take a term related to environmental issues and apply the term to software, but please allow some poetic license around the meaning of "shared limited...