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In the Multics--The first seven years ( 1972 Spring Joint Computer Conference ) Corbato et al make the interesting statement: " In spite of [bold added] the unexpected design iteration phase, the Multics system became sufficiently effective by late 1968 to allow system programmers to use the system while still developing it. " I think that many from the agile community might change the " in spite of " to " because of "... :-)

This initially looked very promising: Mars , along with a number of collaborators (USDA, IBM, Clemson University Genomics Institute; Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture at the University of California-Davis; National Center for Genome Resources; Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics at Indiana University; HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; and Washington State University), have sequenced the cacao genome and released it "Open Access" and "public domain" for the benefit of all, at a site called the Cacao Genome Project : McLean, VA –Today, Mars, Incorporated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and IBM released the preliminary findings of their breakthrough cacao genome sequence and made it available in the public domain . - From the Mars Inc. press release 15 September 2010 A quote from the Independent article on the release ( First rice, then wheat – now cocoa genome unravelled 15 Sep 2010) f...