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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 caopacity 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.