Well it was a bit more complicated than that. (I met Tridge shortly after the fracas, actually.) There were perhaps 5k kernel contributors in 2005, would that

Well it was a bit more complicated than that. (I met Tridge shortly after the fracas, actually.) There were perhaps 5k kernel contributors in 2005, would that be fair? There's perhaps 20k now, I guess. github alone has 80+ million users. It's possible, I suppose, that the former is predominantly the cause of the latter, but it seems hugely unlikely. 6 years ago Larry released BitKeeper under an Apache licence. I still don't anyone who's ever actually used that.