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John Harrison does not fit IBM's Liquid crowd sourced software development

08 May 2011

IBM have created a crowd sourcing software development model (Liquid) , described in this video The example of John Harrison's development of a chronometer to win the Longitude Prize  is given as an example and justification of Liquid.  Consider the following features of John Harrison's work:
It is hard to how a successful software project could be modeled after the above history!