From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <72B06B41-1471-4DA1-B225-E0FD86B56A56@gmail.com> From: Patrick Kelly To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <4AB7BACC.2000004@0x6a.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:53:07 -0400 References: <13426df10909210922k6dec156ax1051cfe28a00b463@mail.gmail.com> <4AB7BACC.2000004@0x6a.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon Topicbox-Message-UUID: 739f08f2-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote: > ron minnich wrote: >> 2.7M lines last year >> 10K lines added a day. >> 5K lines deleted per day. >> >> I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? >> >> At the same time, well, as pointed out, we all use it all the time. >> I'm sending this from gmail. >> >> Or you can use Linux by googling these stats :-) >> >> ron >> >> > Here is a little related tidbit: > http://lwn.net/Articles/222773/ > It shows employer/company vs. changed lines/contributions etc... > I think this has as much to do with the state of the linux kernel > as the overall design and ideal therein. It defines the 'new' open > source. I don't think something this large can benifit anymore > from open source (as in open 'all the time' to anyone, everywhere -- > as opposed to let's say apple's version of open source dev). The > development scheme just doesn't scale. > In any event, I'm still waiting for the damn thing to fork... Fork... That's true, everything under the sun has forked, except the Linux kernel... > > -Jack