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The term is especially common in technical parlance. Software products and standards designed by committee often do too many things or have parts that fit together poorly (because the entities who produced those parts were unaware of each other's requirements for a good fit). For example, the Mozilla Application Suite was often derided for lacking a single vision, thus allowing the software to become bloated and goal-less as code was added by too many contributors. The more focused Firefox browser eventually became the Mozilla Project's flagship product largely because of a stricter control over what code was allowed to be added. Charges of banality are leveled at cultural mainstays such as Friends and Garfield . In an effort to please everybody in the audience, too many people have a hand in the design of something and so it becomes less edgy and original. One maxim is that ''a camel is a horse designed by committee'', this has be attributed to . {Link without Title} |
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