Well of course, but debian isn't developed by a single maintainer, there's about 260 active maintainers and I believe well over 1000 contributors per year. Eit

Well of course, but debian isn't developed by a single maintainer, there's about 260 active maintainers and I believe well over 1000 contributors per year. Either way, I don't think we should compare either on anything other than what they produce. You're free to think Ubuntu providers a better distro but please base it on something that isn't meta such as number of paid employees, because that does a disservice to those who give up their free time.