If The Linux Foundation Was A Software Company, It'd Be The Biggest In The World
The Register, Thursday, September 28,2023
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During a keynote that switched languages several times, demonstrating the challenges faced by both AI and human translators in keeping up, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, threw out several crowd-pleasing statistics while also highlighting some projects likely to make one or two companies squirm a little.
On the statistics front, Zemlin joked that the Linux Foundation was likely the largest software company in the world, noting that if one took an average software developer's salary - he put the worldwide mean as being $40,000 - and multiplied it by the number of developers contributing to the foundation, the payroll would come to around $26 billion - more than Microsoft's $24 billion R&D payroll.