<div><br>"The bad news is that while 50 man-years is small, it is still large for an organization like Ubuntu which I estimate has the equivalent of 30 full-time devs. In addition, many of their bugs exist in other codebases manned by volunteers.
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<div>I actually think fixing just the right 1,000 bugs would move it forward <strong>a huge amount</strong> for me at least, but I still imagine that running Ubuntu on 100 million different desktops around the world would bring out more issues with a much wider variety of hardware, software, .DOC files, other writing scripts, etc."
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<div>Somebody should tell him that all the software in Ubuntu is not only written by the 30-or-so Canonical devs but by thousands of different people working upstream. </div>
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