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You said there were 150-300 engineers working on this code. That is at least an order of magnitude less than the number of people developing Linux.
by guelo 10y ago
You said there were 150-300 engineers working on this code. That is at least an order of magnitude less than the number of people developing Linux.
- dymk 10y agoYes, but they're getting paid, which is going to easily make up for the larger number of individuals developing Linux. Not to mention that 10x the devs does not come close to 10x the productivity.
- arkho 10y agoFor next time: if you don't know how something works (in this case, how linux is developed and by whom), ask! It's better than assuming and jumping to conclusions. Most linux developers are paid to develop linux. Based on Jonatan Corbets stats less than 15% of the changes could possibly be from volunteers. More than 1200 developers affiliated with ~200 companies contributed to the last release alone. There are nuances here (some developers might not be full time _kernel_ developers) but the argument that linux development isn't professional and mostly paid work has been invalid for years.