Number of People Involved in Your Linux Distro?

MerlinTheGreen asks: "I read a recent interview with Microsoft's Nick McGrath in which he claimed, 'There a myth in the market that there are hundreds of thousands of people writing code for the Linux kernel. This is not the case; the number is hundreds, not thousands.' This annoyed me a little as it perpetuates the idea it is Linux rather than the distribution that, in Microsoft-speak, would represent the value proposition. Recognizing that it's the distro that really counts, I wondered how many people were involved in mine. My answer is that, for FC3, I found 16921 unique e-mail address just by running a simple script over /usr/share/doc. What other estimates are there for the number of people who are involved in your distribution, and what method did you use to come up with that number?"

Comments

Re:Users vs Developers vs Admins

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course, who would really dare admit they work for M$ and post in here, surely theyd get eaten up alive.

A number of MS developers used to post (openly) here years ago, before rabid dummies like you took over.

Re:You can count me out

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when counts software with documentation in /usr/share/doc as kernel?

Fucking fagot.