Interesting linux/OSS milestone

Last week an interesting note came through a thread on the linux-kernel mailing list. Basically Ingo Molnar’s calculated, given the size of the code in debian, that linux and the surrounding open source software have passed half a billion lines of code. “That makes Linux and OSS the largest man-made science project in history. It also means that the cost of redeveloping the Debian codebase using commerical methods could exceed 100 billion US dollars.” Pretty impressive stuff.
And of course there’s the obligatory jab embedded at Microsoft.