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From: Bob Munck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: WC:>: Open Source Philosophy Model?
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>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Zimmerman
>> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 11:47 AM
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>> 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...
Part Time, Full Time, Weekend hackers, weekday hackers, 1am junkies
there are all kinds working on Linux projects. Debian project has about
2000 or so actual developers and "who knows how many just outside the
circle" developers.
>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.)
The same can go for Microsoft. Linux is a fully functing creation and is
always evolving into something better.
>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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