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What? Tons of books get new editions. It happens constantly. For example, Strunk & White [0] has been updated in 1918, 1959, 1999, and 2009. Authors release different versions of their own books. I just wrote a review of a book [1] that had a 2nd edition released in 2022 after the first edition was released in 2014. J.R.R. Tolkein retconned The Hobbit after publication of Lord of the Rings. [2] (I realize this isn't really the same thing but I wanted to give an example in fiction)

Anyway, point is, tons of books are changed after publication. I don't see why The Mythical Man Month shouldn't be; the technology is out of date and the gender issues are out of date.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Writes-Improved-Go-Ridiculo...

[2] https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2012/12/13/how-jrr-tolkien-pull...

That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is: Why do we not *update* these books? This gets back into the question of copyright of course.

I don't have my copy with me so I can't supply an exact quote right now. The part that really stuck out was about companies relocating though. First, there was absolutely no possibility that women would be working, and iirc the primary reason that a company might not want to relocate was that a wife might complain her husband had to move, thus inconveniencing his boss. Something like this.

The Mythical Man Month is also super anti-feminist, which I wish people talked about more if they're going to recommend that book.