*Around 3,621 lines were added, 1,550 lines were removed, and 1,425 lines were changed every day for the past 2.5 years
*A small number of companies (like Novell, Redhat) are responsible for a large number of changes. But there is a "long tail" of companies which have made significant changes.
*There is a new Linux kernel release every 2.7 months.
*The top 10 individual developers have contributed almost 15 % of the changes and the top 30 developers have contributed 30 %. Thus there are few developers who contribute a lot and lots of developers which contribute a few. There is a marked inequality of work.
* 70% of the kernel development is done by developers who are being paid by the companies for their work.
* Individual development community has doubled in the last 3 years.
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