Reclusive Linux founder opens up
May 21, 2006
(CNN) -- Portland, Oregon is the unlikely capital of a global software revolution. The revolution is called Open Source. And its leader? Linus Torvalds, the reclusive founder of Linux.
Kristie Lu Stout: What's your ballpark figure in terms of how many Linux developers there are out there?
Linus Torvalds: I actually only work with a few handfuls so I tend to directly interact with maybe 10 - 20 people and they in turn interact with other people. So depending on how you count, if you count just the core people, 20 -50 people. If you count everybody who's involved; five thousand people -- and you can really put the number anywhere in between... Almost, pretty much all, real work is done over e-mail so it doesn't matter where people are.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/
Kristie Lu Stout: What's your ballpark figure in terms of how many Linux developers there are out there?
Linus Torvalds: I actually only work with a few handfuls so I tend to directly interact with maybe 10 - 20 people and they in turn interact with other people. So depending on how you count, if you count just the core people, 20 -50 people. If you count everybody who's involved; five thousand people -- and you can really put the number anywhere in between... Almost, pretty much all, real work is done over e-mail so it doesn't matter where people are.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/