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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 25 2012 @ 07:03 AM EST

Here is the first thing comes to my mind: only fools touch that code from
Microsoft.Let's see, the whole Minix 3 code base consists of (as rpeertod by
authors) 4000 lines of executable kernel code. Coyotos claims to have 12,000
lines of code. The code donated from Microsoft, which is only the driver for
something that we would never use, has 20,000 lines of code.Think about it. Just
for one driver, 20,000 lines of code. How many drivers are in the kernel
again?By pumping more and more and more code into it, Microsoft may be hoping to
eventually bring the kernel to a point where it is impossible to manage. After
all, isn't that the state of Windows? It took 3 YEARS to clean up code for Vista
and release Windows 7. That's 6 cycles of Fedora! (btw, Ubuntu ceases to exist a
while ago, so let's not count that in). Heck, that's longer than Debian average
and CentOS/RHEL release cycles. Gosh, and that's rushing for ya.In conclusion,
let's stay away from that code. Gosh, I am still amazed. 20,000 lines of code
for non-sense?

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