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RE: Linux kernel dev team grows, Torvalds drops off the chart

Loverock Davidson 21st Aug 2009

Oh no! With Linus off the chart what will the linux fanboys think, say, and do now? They have no dictator to tell them how they should behave. Its going to be chaos! I love how the article highlighs just how much more bloated linux gets every day.

Over the past 16 months, the report says, 2.7 million lines have been added, there's been a ten percent increase in the number of developers contributing to each three-monthly release cycle, and the number of lines of code contributed each day has nearly tripled.

So millions of lines of code added, bloating up linux (something I've said all along but flamed for it), have to update every 3 months, patches come out whenever they feel like and on no set schedule, and anyone can throw the code out there be it rogue and malicious. Too much duplication as well. Yep, that's linux for you, getting worse and worse every day. Meanwhile the rest of us will use operating systems that just work. No hassles, no constant babysitting of it, no dictators to tell us how we should act.

I'm looking forward to next year's report that states linux usage has dropped and seen a severe decrease in developers because they realized the system wasn't any good and they didn't have Linus around to tell them what to do. Not to mention they all went out and got paying jobs.