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Because this was the "Original Bike Shed Email" that gave rise to, oh, http://www.sheddingbikes.com.

I think this was posted more in response to Zed's popularity now than because of Parkinson's idea as demonstrated on the FreeBSD discussion.

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Actually, I posted it because somebody linked it earlier today in a comment and it was the best (and earliest) explanation of the Bike Shed phenomena (in a software context) I'd seen.

Gotcha. I must have been influenced after having just read the "why I booted python from Mongrel2" article. :)

I could have sworn that was the submission where I found the comment, but I couldn't find it again for my reply, so who knows?

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