Just anouther of those Linux Windows comparisons

[Tommaso]

I was wondering what you guys think if this:
how many developers does microsoft hire to develope their new operating system vista, and how many developers participate in the creation of popular linux distros like fedora and Suse.

Microsoft obviosly has more money, so that it can hire many more developers, but linux is opensource, so potentially anyone can work on it, and for example, the people who develope fedora, don't also develope the kernel. They just take the normal kernel, and tweak it for their needs. This means that many more people that expected are working on Fedora.

Note: i am talking of people who are actually type code for the OS, not testers, not customer care, representatives, etc. If we included all of those, then microsoft, would obviously win.

[TomX]

As long as somethings good I don't care for how many people have created it.

[Weedman]

As long as somethings good I don't care for how many people have created it.

here here. a lot of things go along that line.

i dont get it. M$ uses pros and they get money, but linux distros use talented normal everday people to develop it (and a few unpaid pros) and its 1000 times better than windows.

[Cabhan]

First off, you need to realize something here.

A community-based project such as Fedora has the potential for many more developers than Windows does. However, Windows developers spend 8+ hours/day developing Windows, while most Fedora developers do so in their spare time.

As far as Windows-Linux comparisons go, remember that each is created for a VASTLY different audience and purpose, so there really is no sense in saying which is better.

[cousinlucky]

The concept/aim/result of the developers Intentions are very different between Linux and Microsoft. The average users of Microsoft are very different than the average users of Linux. Thus the disparity.

I could use Windows without any concept at all of just how a computer works. I could also be bled of my money and easily spied upon by using Windows operating systems on the Internet. Gates is rich because his aim was/is to extract as much money as possible from any computers using his product.

Linux folks are not into computing for the money but to develop better and better computer operating systems. Until I read " Linux is not Windows " I did not have the awareness of this Monumental Difference between these two very, very unlike computing concepts.

[Weedman]

The concept/aim/result of the developers Intentions are very different between Linux and Microsoft. The average users of Microsoft are very different than the average users of Linux. Thus the disparity.

I could use Windows without any concept at all of just how a computer works. I could also be bled of my money and easily spied upon by using Windows operating systems on the Internet. Gates is rich because his aim was/is to extract as much money as possible from any computers using his product.

Linux folks are not into computing for the money but to develop better and better computer operating systems. Until I read " Linux is not Windows " I did not have the awareness of this Monumental Difference between these two very, very unlike computing concepts.

that deserves a pat on the back. it could not be more true.

[Tommaso]

First off, you need to realize something here.

A community-based project such as Fedora has the potential for many more developers than Windows does. However, Windows developers spend 8+ hours/day developing Windows, while most Fedora developers do so in their spare time.

As far as Windows-Linux comparisons go, remember that each is created for a VASTLY different audience and purpose, so there really is no sense in saying which is better.

I wasn't asking which is better. i was wondering, which one has more developers, and which one has been worked on more. This is probably an impossible figure to see, but i just checked to see what you guys thought.

[Cabhan]

I wasn't asking which is better. i was wondering, which one has more developers, and which one has been worked on more. This is probably an impossible figure to see, but i just checked to see what you guys thought.

I was more directing that comment towards Weedman than you. As far as the number of developers, it's probably nigh impossible to say. My guess is that more people have, on the whole, contributed to Linux, but in actual developers, I dun have the slightest idea.

[a12ctic]

tomm, whats up with all these anti-ms threads, enough... I like one every once in a while but not 5 at once....

[josolanes]

tomm, whats up with all these anti-ms threads, enough... I like one every once in a while but not 5 at once....

i'd like to politely disagree. this doesn't seem like an anti-ms thread to me...it seems that many of the comments in the thread are anti-ms though.

he's just looking for a ballpark estimate on the number of developers for ms vs one of the main linux distros. that's what i understood atleast