> But results may vary when the work is being done on an amateur basis. Much, if not most, of Linux kernel development is done by employees of various companie

> But results may vary when the work is being done on an amateur basis. Much, if not most, of Linux kernel development is done by employees of various companies, who are being paid for their work. Typically, that's in the form of device drivers, which also happens to be where I've seen the shoddiest, buggiest code in the kernel [1]. [1] Think "driver A abusing the 'private' pointer of driver B for its own purposes" kind of buggy.