Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology Prize

Re:Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology... by soupboy on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @12:02PM (#4106637)

"It is estimated that a total of 73,000 man-years have been spent working on the code."

That is such a mind-boggling number that I can scarcely believe it.

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Re:Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology... by yafujifide on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @12:48PM (#4106930)

I guess I'll stop writing my own kernel. There are other things I want to do in the next 73,000 years.

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Re:Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology... by xdialog on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @01:01PM (#4107010)

The purpose of you writing a kernel is to share a Millennium Technology Prize?

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Re:Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology... by S4M on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:21PM (#4107903)

It would be interesting to know how many men years were put into Windows and OS X, for comparison. Anybody has an idea or references?

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Re:Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology... by cmaggard on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:28PM (#4109350)

Imagine how many babies they could have had.

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