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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Zimmerman
> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 11:47 AM
> 11,000 MS to Linux's 1 million plus. Who has the edge?
There are one million people actively working on Linux
development? Full time? Even part time, that's really
impressive. Why, if they just write a single line of
code each...
Of course, applying the rule that "adding people to a
late project makes it later," Linux should be finished
about the time that the sun goes nova. (Or Sun starts
building DG machines.)
Anyway, I wasn't talking about a race between MS and Linux,
only replying to the statement that MS does not have the
resources to build a better OS. This doesn't mean that they
have done so or are likely to do so in the future.
The most commercially successful OS that I've helped
implement, IBM's CP-67/CMS (later MVS), was developed by
less than a dozen people as a local tool to support research.
The developers and later supporters of it had to fight the
corporation tooth and nail for years to get it into wide
use. There is a natural antipathy between OS development
and large corporations.
Bob Munck
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