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It does answer communication problems though right? Compared to any business project, the kernel is behemoth.


>Compared to any business project, the kernel is behemoth.

The Linux kernel's ~26 million lines-of-code[1] is much smaller than the proprietary code bases at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. E.g. Google had 2 billion LOC in 2015.[2] MS Windows is ~50 million LOC. All those companies have faster commit velocities to their repos than the Linux project.

[1] https://phoronix.com/misc/linux-2017/index.html

[2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...




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