Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict

Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by lmm on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:26AM (#4017274)

> For what it's worth, this is the largest software project that has ever existed by several orders of magnitude;

Hardly. Even just talking about publicly-available open source projects, consider e.g. FreeBSD.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by koeselitz on Thursday May 24, 2012 @02:26PM (#4019767)

I can't edit any more, but I've looked around, and this clearly isn't true. For some good details on the size of the Linux project, check out the beginning of this talk by Greg Kroah-Hartmann, one of the chief kernel devs; it's from 2008, but things have only moved faster on the kernel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by koeselitz on Thursday May 24, 2012 @11:52AM (#4018978)

I don't think that's true, although I'll admit I don't know the numbers. How many people are active on the FreeBSD Core Team? How many commits per day do they see?

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by shashis on Thursday May 24, 2012 @05:12AM (#4017522)

... and how many contributors (individuals/corporations) can FreeBSD boast of?

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