From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

I think a more apt statement would be: "there are hundred of thousands
working to create it."

"Creation" and "improvement" are <> the same thing ;->

There are legions of foot soldiers, but no generals at all, and damn few
NCO's.  Linus is clearly over his head WRT the "vision/direction
thing" and many system architectural issues (that go beyond technoid
implementation details).

The GNU tools crowd suffers from the same internationalization myopia that
Linux does and spends a lot of time fixating on supporting some pretty
obscure systems and antique compilers making up .0001% of the market, when
the whole world would be much better off if GCC wasn't so retarded about
its code generation sometimes (my god, that thing frequently emits some
pretty rank stuff)

Its things like this that MS actually does well.  They don't waste a lot of
resource addressing the extreme oddball fringe where there would be no
possible payback for the effort involved, and they have actual system
architects who take a much broader long term view than anyone in the OSS
community does right now, and their tools people actively work on stuff
that will improve the "bread and butter" retail products.


"Adam"  wrote in message
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>
> ...there are hundreds of thousands of people working to improve free
software...

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