[Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (kenneth gonsalves)
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:25:09 +0530
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 17:32 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote:
congratulations - I am sure you went through each of these links to
find
out where they were on the site, in what context they were there,
whether they were put there by the authors of the site and how
visible
they are to the viewers of the site.
Those were just some random stats I found after reading your original
FUD. But then, I'm sure that when you were saying "site" and not
"page", you went through all the sites to do your due diligence?
yes I did - spent some hours looking at the sites in question from the
end user perspective to get an overall impression on how much importance
is given to linux.
And here's one more which you can add to your collection of useless
statistics:
site:microsoft.com linux 322,000
Why is that useless?
this one is better
site:microsoft.com how to remove linux 28,800 results
According to the Linux Foundation [1], Microsoft
was one of the largest corporate contributors of Linux in 2011.
[1]
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/linux-kernel-in-2011-15-million-total-lines-of-code-and-microsoft-is-a-top-contributor/
I am sure you read all the comments on this article. And of course the
original pdf from the linux foundation.
<quote>
It is amusing to note that Linus Torvalds (1,113 total changes, 231
since 2.6.35) does not appear in either top-30
list of contributors.
</quote>
wow - $bill contributes more to the kernel than Linus!
In general, it is a fallacy to equate number of lines of code
contributed to contribution as such. A lot of other factors need to be
considered - these factors are adequately explained in the pdf and in
the comments on the article itself. 1% of the total contributed code -
where the contribution is completely self serving ...
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
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