(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 20:05:07
gas = G = gawble

Gates's Law

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

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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