Who writes Linux? Almost 10,000 developers | Linux Today

Who writes Linux? Almost 10,000 developers

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Sep 16, 2013

n the latest report on who writes Linux, the answer comes to almost 10,000 programmers since 2005 and 1,100 in the last year alone.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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