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Don’t give me this “We Used to Do Big Things” Crap. We do. | Discursive

Posted on 4. June 2013 Written by Marcel Weiss

Don’t give me this “We Used to Do Big Things” Crap. We do. | Discursive

“The Linux kernel trumps the moonshot both in terms of engineering effort and societal impact by a few orders of magnitude. The kernel is the largest, most complex collaborative effort in the history of the species. That may sound somewhat grandiose, but it’s very much true. The Linux kernel is over 17 million lines of code and is growing at an average rate of 3,500 lines per day. Nearly 1,300 developers contribute to Linux with versions like 2.6.25 generating more than 12,000 patches. The Linux kernel powers over 93% of the TOP500 Supercomputers. The kernel is at the heart of Android which has a nearly 60% share of the mobile operating system market with 1.5 million device activations a day. The kernel also powers millions of servers across companies that have transformed the way we consume information and communicate with one another such as Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.”

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