[NTLUG:Discuss] SCO sues IBM over UNIX IP in Linux

[Chris Cox]

Steve Baker wrote:
...snip...
> Looking for 'ibm' in that list, the IBM corporation appear to have
> contributed 0.001% of the code.  Individuals with IBM email addresses
> (who may or may not have been being paid by IBM at the time) contributed
> a total of 0.032% of the code.
> 
> The code considered in that study was 514Mbytes of source.  IBM's 
> contribution
> is 5,714 bytes.   That's *nothing*.  Linus has contributed 1.4Mbytes of
> source code.

Wow... numbers to big for me to imagine.
If .0001% of Linux is worth $1 billion.... boy I knew Linux was
worth a lot...

That's like $1,000,000,000,000,000

(I think I got all of the 0's...)