Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Jun 2006 14:15 UTC, submitted by sjvn
"On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from Microsoft in July 2008, and everything changed. It may be two years away, but when a giant the size of Gates moves, the world moves with him. And, in that movement, in this period of change, Linux may have its best chance ever to seize the marketplace momentum from Microsoft."
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2006-02-23
At least that is what I got from a recent article on Windows development.
Each one of those developers has produced an average of 1000 lines of code per year for Vista, while the US average is 5000 or 6000.
Open source developers outnumber the 2000 programmers that work on Vista, and they work much more efficiently as well, working on independent modules which are constantly tested.
The law of the inertia seems to help Linux much more than Windows.