Linux is the largest software development project on the planet

[woodsmoke]

some fascinating stats.


http://www.cio.com/article/3069529/l...h-hartman.html

There is one humerous quote:

Kroah-Hartman said, “When I first started doing this, we were doing two-and-a-half changes an hour. Everybody was like, ‘Huh, no way. We can never go faster; that's insane.’

Microsoft and Apple said, ‘You guys win.’

Literally, they said that ... ‘We cannot compete. You guys are going to go farther than anybody. There's no way we can keep up.’

woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Linus is reported to be a human being, although some have questioned it. Linux is the project.

[GreyGeek]

“We make a lot of changes, and we're not just making changes because we like to, because that's more work. We're really lazy. We're making changes because we have to. We're making changes because the world changes. The model of 'you make a box and you make it static and you throw it in the corner' doesn't work, because that box has to touch the world and the world changes. Everything interacts, so you have to evolve. If your operating system does not change, it is dead. It's that simple. If your device does not change based on the world it interacts with, it is dead. It's that simple. So look at operating systems that don't change, nobody uses them anymore.”

The same is true of desktop environments like KDE.

[woodsmoke]

lol yeah I fixed it. lol