On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > 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... > Except for the times when the linux kernel was forked for PPC support :-). Or the fork for running linux on L4. or.... > > >> -Jack >> > > >
