Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 - 15:42:08 EST


On 1/31/06, Diego Calleja <diegocg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:57:52 -0800 (PST),
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> > Please realize that the kernel is one of the largest open-source projects
> > in the world, if not _the_ largest. Most projects are much much smaller.
>
> Obviously you've never downloaded openoffice source code :)
>
> My kernel sources weight 259 MB after cleaning it, but according to:
> http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0/source.html openoffice 2.0
> weights 260.
>
> Openoffice is much better at bloating code, you can't win.

It was more a comment on the number of contributors. Not download size.

josh
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