How many employees does Canonical have? AFAIK, it all started with a group of 30 odd Debian developers.

Yes, but when they started, they mainly rebuilt the upstream (Debian) packages, right?

Compare this with the russian ALT Linux distribution: 150 paid full time developers only to maintain the distro.

I'm not buying this number. It's too big. Compare to Pardus, which also employs a number of paid developers, it's more popular than ALT, and it still has less paid devs. But maybe they are employing 150, what do I know...

As for Red Hat, according to recent news, they're moving from 2.000 to approximately 2.800 employees.

And they still refuse to add even 10 or 20 packages to EL, even as a "technology preview" (which is unsupported, AFAIR).

Cheers, R-C

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