In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to
sustain a chain reaction. Of a software product, describes a
condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one
plus {epsilon} bugs. (This malady has many causes: {creeping
featurism}, ports to too many disparate environments, poor initial
design, etc.) When software achieves critical mass, it can never be
fixed; it can only be discarded and rewritten.
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